Sam Pereira
American poet Sam Pereira was born in
Los Banos,
California on April 17,
1949. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from
California State University, Fresno (
1971) and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the
University of Iowa (
1975), where he was a student in the legendary
Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Pereira's literary influences include
poets Philip Levine,
Charles Wright (poet),
Richard Hugo,
Mark Strand, and
Norman Dubie. His contemporaries include
poets David St. John and the late Larry Levis.
He has published two books of poetry:
The Marriage of the Portuguese (L'Epervier Press,
1978) and
Brittle Water (Abattoir Editions/Penumbra Press,
University of Nebraska at Omaha,
1987). A third book,
A Cafe in Boca, is scheduled to be released sometime in 2006.
Work of his has also appeared in several anthologies of contemporary American poetry in recent decades, among them:
Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets (Silver Skates,
1987),
The Body Electric (
W. W. Norton,
2000), and
How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets (Heyday/Roundhouse Press,
2001).
His poems have been included in numerous magazines as well, among them,
Alaska Quarterly Review,
American Poetry Review,
Antioch Review,
Cutbank,
Manoa,
Missouri Review and
Poetry.
He lives in the
San Joaquin Valley of California with his wife, the writer
Susan R. G. Pereira, and is an
English teacher in California's public school system.
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