Quote of the day
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
Sam Hamill

Born: September 5, 1943
Died: April 14, 2018 (aged 74)
Bio: Sam Hamill was an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson. He is also the initiator of the Poets Against War movement, which he set up in response to the Iraq War.
Known for:
- The Erotic Spirit (1995)
- Habitation: Collected Poems (2014)
- Love Poems from the Japanese
- Avocations, On Poets and Poetry (2007)