poetry with a conscience
An American poet with a passion for social issues, Samantha Terrell is the author of multiple five-star collections and curator of the poetry series, SHINE, featuring her fellow contemporaries from around the globe. In a writing career spanning over two decades, Terrell's poems have been widely published, including in: Door=Jar, Eunoia Review, In Parentheses, Poetry Quarterly, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and others. She has been a Forward Prize nominee (2024), a Pushcart Prize nominee (2023-24), and was shortlisted for the 2021 Anita McAndrews Poets for Human Rights Award. Terrell and her family reside in Upstate New York where she cherishes sunbeams splattered on a hardwood floor and the quiet after snowfall.
PRAISE FOR POETRY BY SAMANTHA
Delta Function (Alien Buddha Press, 2024)
Terrell’s Delta Function asks its reader to consider not the “or” but the “and.” It is at once a very personal experience—calling on the audience to weigh all the options—but at the same time as broad as a divided America: “But if we’re due for an extinction event, this / may be the first a species brings upon itself” (“Teetering on Extinction”). Delta Function could not be more timely in this tumultuous political environment where sentiments like “You’ll wish / you could wash / off the parts of me that disagree with you” (“Teetering on Extinction”) and “[…] these social constructs made to mimic / congeniality, only ever / lead us to estrangement” (“Failed Kingdoms”) may ring all too true. But in this era of discord, Terrell inserts the message to “accept the contradictions in our claims” (“Fragments”).
Don’t sleep on this relevant collection.
-Elizabeth K. Bates, Author of Mosaics & Mirages
Terrell’s Delta Function asks its reader to consider not the “or” but the “and.” It is at once a very personal experience—calling on the audience to weigh all the options—but at the same time as broad as a divided America: “But if we’re due for an extinction event, this / may be the first a species brings upon itself” (“Teetering on Extinction”). Delta Function could not be more timely in this tumultuous political environment where sentiments like “You’ll wish / you could wash / off the parts of me that disagree with you” (“Teetering on Extinction”) and “[…] these social constructs made to mimic / congeniality, only ever / lead us to estrangement” (“Failed Kingdoms”) may ring all too true. But in this era of discord, Terrell inserts the message to “accept the contradictions in our claims” (“Fragments”).
Don’t sleep on this relevant collection.
-Elizabeth K. Bates, Author of Mosaics & Mirages
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