Poet Profile

Sam Calhoun

Sam Calhoun is a writer and photographer. He has over 150 poems in journals and anthologies, including Cosmic Daffodils, Eratos, Westward Quarterly, Boats Against the Current, and Cold Moon Journal has featured on the local NPR radio station’s The Sundial Writers Corner. His award winning photography has appeared in several magazines and books.

Awards and Other Honors:

His poetry was part of the Conservation Through Art: Saving Alabama's Hemlocks program which was exhibited in art galleries and museums where he led workshops helping people reconnect with the natural world.

Books Published:

Perturbations – Alien Buddha Press (forthcoming January 2025); Ephemera – Origami Poems Project (2024); The Hemlock Poems (co-author) – Present Tense Media (2023); Apogee – Origami Poems Project (2023); Follow This Creek – Foothills Publishing (2007).

dead coreopsis―
little seed find your way back
the earth is still warm

red cirrus blankets
hang on the horizon taut―
sun like a clothespin

night of rain
the darkness pooling
in our eyes

rocks trapped in a stream
singing a song home
one grain at a time

time changes
one more hour
to grieve you

last leaf of the maple
cups the last star in the sky―
is this love

Credits:

"dead coreopsis" – Fresh Out, January 1, 2024; "red cirrus blankets" – Fresh Out, March 4, 2024; "night of rain" – Autumn Moon Haiku Journal Vol. 7:2, Spring-Summer 2024; "rocks trapped in a stream" – Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, September, 2024; "time changes" – failed haiku Vol. 9, Issue 105, November 2024; "last leaf of the maple" – Cold Moon Journal, October 24, 2024.