Sam Abrams

Sam Abrams (1935–2023) was an American poet, classicist, teacher and activist. A "favorite poet" of fellow poet Thomas E. Weatherly Jr., Abrams was described as writing the:[P]oems too of a classicist, on familiar terms with Sappho, Archilochus, Horace, Socrates regulars in the audience along with Miles, Billie, Bessie, Woody hard listeners for poems that are bluesy, bopsy, beat. Whitmanesque, funny, generous, passionately committed, intellectually rigorous ... in-your-face poems, that can only. .. be read aloud.