Sampson Starkweather


Sampson Starkweather is a new American dadcore poet born in 1976 in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Starkweather first went to Roanoke College in Virginia for a BA in English, and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. In 2006, Sampson Starkweather started the press Birds, LLC. with Dan Boehl, Chris Tonelli, Matt Rasmussen, and Justin Marks. He has helped organize, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative and the CUNY Chapbook festival.
The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather by Sampson Starkweather
The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather is a book which assembles the first four full-length books of Starkweather’s written over the course of ten years, which include, Self Help Poems, The Waters, LA LA LA, and King of the Forest. The book has been categorized as a ‘metarealist’ text by the Huffington Post.

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Chapbooks