Sam Green
Samuel Green was born in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, and raised in the nearby fishing and mill town of Anacortes. After four years in the military, including service in Vietnam, he attended college under the Veterans Vocational Rehabilitation Program, earning degrees from Highline Community College and Western Washington University (B.A. & M.A.). A 30-year veteran of the Poetry-in-the-Schools program, he has taught in literally hundreds of classrooms. He has also taught at Southern Utah University, Western Wyoming Community College, served six winter terms as Distinguished Visiting Northwest Writer at Seattle University, and five summers in Ireland. His poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Poetry, Poetry NOW, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner, among many others. His ten collections of poems include Vertebrae: Poems 1972-1996 (Eastern Washington University Press) and The Grace of Necessity (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2008). For 25 years he has lived on a remote island off the Washington coast in a log house he built himself, and is, with his wife, Sally, Co-Editor of Brooding Heron Press, which specializes in publication of fine letterpress editions of poetry. In December he was named by Governor Chris Gregoire as the first Poet Laureate for the State of Washington.
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