Sam Digs Poems

Dear Readers: I'm so grateful for your time, your eyes, your encouragement. If you'd like to use my poems for any reason other than a repost (write a response, teach in a classroom, share at a reading), please just ask permission first. You can reach me via e-mail, which is listed on my "Contact Me" page. Thank you!

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“Give a boy to fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a boy to fish and he’ll remember his grandfather.” @samdigspoems

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Eyyyy Write About Now is so good to me. This is the 5th poem of mine they’ve published this year.

Thanks WAN!

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Partner-in-crime making poetry great again at @wanpoetry #MPGA (at Write About Now)

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Making poetry great again with total strangers at @wanpoetry !!! #MPGA (at Write About Now)

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The great Geoff Munsterman, publisher of books, editor of poems, writer of pretty words, scribe of Plaquemines Parish, woke up early this morning to print some books for us so we could make poetry great again. Thanks Geoff. You saved poetry.

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Just a little rehearsal with @mrlyst getting ready to see our people in Texas this week #makepoetrygreatagain (at Ace Hotel New Orleans)

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This piano man playing Prince at the airport is the real MVP. (at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport)

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“These are the 10 men women have warned me against becoming.”

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I’m so late to following wanpoetry that I didn’t even see this went up on their tumblr! Thanks WAN!

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Ok poems...

Hey Tumblr...

I’ve been a bad friend.

I got scared about sharing my work for a while.

I’m less scared now.

See you soon.

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Worn

Now available from Next Left Press $7 (+ $2 shipping if outside of Louisiana)

Hey world, My debut chapbook, Worn, is now on sale! It’s only six poems, but they’re six that have had great lives and have stuck with me. I hope these are poems that you’ll return to again and again.

Includes the tumblr favorite Ten Men Women Have Warned Me Against Becoming.

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I just realized my chapbook link was buried deep in my tumblr! My apologies. Here it is, if you’re interested.

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@justinalamb throwback to 2013 giving me FEELINGS #FML #TeamSNO (at Old Marquer Theatre)

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When men look for their inner feminine, this world will start to heal. And this is my proof.

“never taught how to human, only learnt how not to monster pray for the boys not blessed with women whispering them through anger, ignorance and fear they are a navy with no lighthouse an ocean with no moon tugging the water upward”

-Sam Gordon

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Couldn’t agree more. Thanks for sharing.

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“Actually there is a single moment when childhood ends. When it gives way to the cold universe of handling shit on your own.”

Sam Gordon @samdigspoems

New Video Posted!

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Thanks Write About Now for recording and posting this piece! I’m really proud of it.

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Youth poets unite! KIPP Renaissance from New Orleans meets WordCrew from Baton Rouge. #NOYOM (at Tulane University Lavin Bernick Center)

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#NOYOM selfie with Ms. Bouldin aka @honeysanaa. Full house tonight!!! (at Tulane University Lavin Bernick Center)

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@akeemmartin giving a clinic at #passitonno (at Joan Mitchell Center)

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@akeemmartin giving a clinic at @passitonno

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@akeemmartin giving a clinic at @passitonno (at Joan Mitchell Center)