Sam Hamill is an american poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press

Copper Canyon Press

Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to...

 along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson

Tree Swenson

Tree Swenson is currently the President/Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets. Throughout her life, she has been deeply involved with poetry and independent publishing.Holly Swenson was born in Utah and grew up in Montana...

.He is also the initiator of the Poets Against War movement(2003)
Hamill has been awarded the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

Poetry Books

Destination Zero: Poems 1970–1995 (1995).

Almost Paradise: New and Selected Poems and Translations (2005).

Measured by Stone (2007).

External links

• http://www.progressive.org/mag_cusachamill
• Copper Canyon Press website