Sam Witt (born 1970) is an American poet and tenured English professor who currently lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
He is now a tenured member of the English faculty at Framingham State University[1] and served as Jaded Ibis Press poetry editor until its asset sale in January 2016.
Sam Witt's first book, Everlasting Quail,[1] was selected by judge Carol Frost for the Katharine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize given by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference run by Middlebury College.
"The Overburden in Hawktime" was chosen by poet Nicky Beer as the winner of the 2012 Pinch Literary Award for Poetry.
Witt's third book of poems, "Little Domesday Clock" was selected for publication in 2017 as a part of the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series.