# Nick Samaras

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**Nick Samaras** (Greek: Νικ Σαμαράς; born 1952[1]) is a poet and essayist. His first book of poetry, *Hands of the Saddlemaker* received the [Yale Series of Younger Poets Award](/source/Yale_Series_of_Younger_Poets_Competition).[2]

## Biography

Samaras is the son of Bishop Kallistos Samaras, a prominent [Greek Orthodox](/source/Greek_Orthodox_Church) Clergyman and theologian. He was born in [Foxton, Cambridgeshire](/source/Foxton,_Cambridgeshire), England, living there and on the island of [Patmos](/source/Patmos), Greece. At the time of the political [Greek junta](/source/Greek_junta) military dictatorship, he was brought in exile to be raised further in America, via previous living in Turkey, Wales, Brussels, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, [Yugoslavia](/source/Yugoslavia), and [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem). He later settled in [Woburn, Massachusetts](/source/Woburn,_Massachusetts), his father's home town.

He earned his MFA from [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University), and his doctorate from the [University of Denver](/source/University_of_Denver). His individual poems have been featured in *[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)*, *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*, *[The Paris Review](/source/The_Paris_Review)*, *[Poetry](/source/Poetry_(magazine))*, *[The New Republic](/source/The_New_Republic)*, *[Kenyon Review](/source/Kenyon_Review)*, and many other publications.[3] Currently, he lives in [West Nyack](/source/West_Nyack,_New_York), New York.[4]

## Works

- *Hands of the Saddlemaker* New Haven : Yale University Press, 1992. ISBN 9780300054576, OCLC [24376065](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24376065)[5]
- *American Psalm, World Psalm* Ashland Poetry Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-912592-76-3

## References

1. YOUNG, GLYNN (13 April 2011). ["National Poetry Month: Nicholas Samaras |"](https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2011/04/13/national-poetry-month-nicholas-samaras/). *www.tweetspeakpoetry.com*

1. ["Nicholas Samaras"](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/events/73865/nicholas-samaras). *Poetry Foundation*. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.

1. ["Nicholas Samaras"](http://www.theadirondackreview.com/Samaras.html). *www.theadirondackreview.com*. Retrieved 25 September 2019.

1. ["Nicholas Samaras"](https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/nicholas_samaras). *Poets & Writers*. 28 May 1981. Retrieved 25 September 2019.

1. Marchant, Fred (1992). "Review of Hands of the Saddlemaker". *Harvard Review*. '***(1): 195. [ISSN 1077-2901](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1077-2901). [JSTOR 27559464](https://www.jstor.org/stable/27559464)***

## External links

- [Image Artist of the Month – Nick Samaras](https://web.archive.org/web/20051221202023/http://www.imagejournal.org/aom/samaras_nicholas.asp)
- [A Conversation with poet, Nicholas Samaras, author of “American Psalm, World Psalm”](https://billbuschel.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/1629/), 24 July 2014

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