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Nicholas Samaras

Nicholas Samaras won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award with Hands of the Saddlemaker. He is currently finishing his next manuscript while residing in West Nyack, New York with his family.

The Abduction of Even Language

By Nicholas Samaras
Poetry•Blurring Borders – Vol. XXIV No. 1 (Spring 2011)

(Reference Guide for the Immigrant, Emigrant, and Sundry Kidnapped Refugee Classes) A cookie is a biscuit. A drink is lemonade. Jelly is jam. Ice cream is a cornet or a lolly. A store is a shop. Food is a nosh up. Food is tuck. You can also tuck somebody up, Cor Blimey. A coin is… [Read More]

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