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Sam Sax

Sam Sax is a queer, Jewish writer and educator. They’re the author of PIG (Scribner, 2023) and Yr Dead (McSweeney’s, 2024), as well as Madness, which won the National Poetry Series prize, and Bury It, which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They’re the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta, and elsewhere.

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Hog Lagoon

September 11, 2023
you can smell it soon as you enter the state caught from space the pools look like wounds in the earth cut precise and surgically pink hundreds of millions live and die inside the factory waste falls through the slats & slides into pits stored in the open to be sprayed onto ...
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Sanctuary

June 5, 2017
my man was committed to an asylum as a child wild thing    fungal phylum    virus thought they could fix him that he could be fixed his sickness too much too much his diagnoses drugs & boys & language & ...