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First Things
Bottlecap Press, 2026We experience call-backs all the time, though we may not recognize them. The world in many ways requests a return, or an answer. The concept behind these poems was born while on a hike....These poems are my questions for the world. Consider them an invocation. They await their own call-back.
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First Things
Eulogy Press, 2025When he was nine, Sam Calhoun wrote some of his first poetry. Now, 35 years later, he's revisited them and created six new found poems. Explore the childlike wonder of "First Things," a postcard chapbook delivered over seven weeks.
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Perturbations
Alien Buddha Press, 2025from the publisher "...explores the quiet spaces where grief lingers and insomnia takes hold. Through vivid imagery and a deep connection to the natural world, this collection captures the tension between what fades and what endures. Each poem examines the moments we overlook. Calhoun’s words are grounded yet expansive, finding meaning in the smallest details and the largest questions. A poignant meditation on life’s fragility. Perturbations offers a window into a world where even the smallest disturbances carry profound meaning."
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The Hemlock Poems
Present Tense Media, 2023A collaborative chapbook featuring the poems of Ann Bailey, Leisha Hultgren, Beth Stewart, and Sam Calhoun. This book is written in support of Wild Alabama's Conservation Through Art: Saving Alabama's Hemlocks program and exhibit, a culmination of several years of volunteer work to study and monitor the hemlocks in the Sipsey Wilderness Area and Bankhead National Forest in Alabama.
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Follow This Creek
Foothills Publishing, 2007My debut chapbook of poems, most poems center around explorations in the natural world. I view language and words as I do nature, places to play in, places to explore. The way words roll across a page or off a tongue is as important as water moving over rock. I have a great connection to the natural world, as writer and photographer. The immediate experiences of my travels and minutiae of encounters inform my writing, being both recorder and storyteller.
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Songs For Butterflies
Origami Poems Project, 2025Dealing thematically with love—exploring first love, love lost, and love rekindled.
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Ephemera
Origami Poems Project, 2024Second collection of small poems inspired from my walks along the Richard Martin Rail-Trail in Elkmont, AL.
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Apogee
Origami Poems Project, 2023A collection of small poems inspired from my walks along the Richard Martin Rail-Trail in Elkmont, AL.
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Perigean Tide Anthology
PJCA Islamabad’s 1st International Haiku Anthology
North Alabama Anthology Project
Stafford Challenge 2025-2026 Anthology
2026 Sakura Haiku Challenge Anthology
The Alien Buddha's Best of 2025
SNOWFALL AND STARLIGHT: Christmas Haiku
Between Light And Darkness
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