Sam Hamill (May 9, 1943 – April 14, 2018) was an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press[1] along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson.
[2] In 2003 Hamill he did a poetic tour in Italy, organised by writer Alessandro Agostinelli.
Hamill was awarded the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
[3] Hamill's 2014 book Habitation: Collected Poems,[4] presents some of Hamill's best poems spanning a career of over 40 years.
[5] At the time of his death from complications of COPD in 2018, his final poetry collection After Morning Rain was about to be published.