Sam Hamill

Sam Hamill (May 9, 1943 – April 14, 2018) was an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson. He also initiated the Poets Against War movement (2003) in response to the Iraq War. In 2003 he did a poetic tour in Italy, organised by writer Alessandro Agostinelli. After that tour Hamill published his first Italian book ''A Pisan Canto - Un canto pisano''.

Hamill was awarded the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

Hamill's 2014 book ''Habitation: Collected Poems'', presents some of Hamill's best poems spanning a career of over 40 years.

At the time of his death from complications of COPD in 2018, his final poetry collection ''After Morning Rain'' was about to be published. Provided by Wikipedia