Sam Pereira



Sam Pereira (b. April 17, 1949) is an American poet

Life
Pereira is from Los Banos, California. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Fresno (1971) and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa (1975), where he was a student in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

He lives in the San Joaquin Valley of California with his wife, the writer Susan Graham, and is an English teacher in California's public school system. Pereira's literary influences include poets Philip Levine, Charles Wright (poet), Richard Hugo, Mark Strand, and Norman Dubie. His contemporaries include poets David St. John and the late Larry Levis.

Work of his has appeared in several anthologies of contemporary American poetry in recent decades, among them: Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets (Silver Skates, 1987), The Body Electric (W.W. Norton, 2000), and How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets (Heyday/Roundhouse Press, 2001).

His poems have been included in numerous magazines as well, among them, Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Cutbank, Manoa, The Missouri Review, Poetry (magazine) and Blackbird (online journal).

Publications
His books include: The Marriage of the Portuguese (L'Epervier Press, 1978), Brittle Water (Abattoir Editions/Penumbra Press, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1987), and A Cafe in Boca, released in 2007 by Tebot Bach. An expanded edition of his first book was published in April 2012 by Tagus Press at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.