Samuel Amadon is the author of five books of poetry: Like a Sea, The Hartford Book, Listener, Often, Common, Some, And Free, and Divers. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Fence, Lana Turner, Volt, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA Program at the University of South Carolina, where, with Liz Countryman, he edits the journal Oversound.