Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill

Cate Gable has a poetry MFA from Pacific Lutheran University; an MA from the University of WA; and a BA from University of Pennsylvania. Gable won first place in a San Francisco Bay Guardian poetry contest; an honorable mention in the 2019 Hoffman Center for the Arts Manzanita Poetry Contest; and an award-winning chapbook, Heart (Center for Creative Work). Most recently, she authored a book of poetry and commentary on Stein/Toklas, entitled Chere Alice: Three Lives (Publications Studio, Portland, OR.) and her poem Kilauea was selected for Hawaii Public Radio Aloha Shorts. Gable writes a weekly column for The Chinook Observer. She lives in Nahcotta, Washington and Paris, France.

Paul Nelson is a poet & interviewer. He founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets, indigenous people & whole systems activists. Paul's books include American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) American Sentences (2015) A Time Before Slaughter (2009) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia, 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards and Make it True meets Medusario (2019) he's engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia, serves as Sam Hamill's Literary Executor and lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion's Cedar River watershed. www.PaulENelson.com.

Poet, translator, and musician Alexis Bernaut was born in Paris, France, in 1977. He published Au matin suspendu (Suspended in The Morning) in December 2012. In 2016, he was invited to the Seoul International Writers Festival. Some of his poems have been translated into English, Korean, and Hebrew. He met Sam Hamill in Paris in May 2014, through their mutual friend, French-Iraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani. Along with Delia Morris, Dominique Delpirou, and André Ughetto, he translated and published the first - and so far only - collection of Sam Hamill's poetry in France (Ce que l'eau sait, Le Temps des Cerises, 2016). He also translated into French Sam's version of the Wen fu. Alexis currently lives in Brittany, Western France, with his partner Gaelle, cats, horses, and donkeys.