Samuel Green was born in Sedro-Wolley, Washington, in 1948, 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 Western Washington University. 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, and served five terms as Distinguished Visiting Northwest Writer at Seattle University.

His poems have appeared in hundreds of journals, including Poetry Northwest, Poetry, Poetry NOW, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. Among his ten collections of poems are Vertebrae: Poems 1972-1996 (Eastern Washington University Press) and The Grace of Necessity (Carnegie-Mellon University Press). He has lived for 25 years 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.

He has been visiting poet and poetry teacher at Seattle University for several years and is been active with the Skagit River Poetry Festivals.

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Interviews & Articles

•    Interview with gotpoetry.com - July 29, 2008
•    Feature Article in the Seattle PI - July 11, 2008
•    "Most Asked Questions about Being a Poet"
      Q & A with Washington State Poet Laureate Samuel Green
•    Interview in the Bellingham Herald March 16, 2008
•    Article in Seattle University Magazine - Spring 2004

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