Seth Abramson

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Seth Abramson (1976-) is an American poet, author of The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, forthcoming 2009). He is also a contributing author, with fiction-writer Tom Kealey, to The Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum Publishing, forthcoming 2008). His second collection of poems, Final Boy, was named a Finalist for the 2008 Green Rose Prize (New Issues Press), and a Semi-Finalist for the 2008 Vassar Miller Prize (University of North Texas Press) [8].

Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Seth Abramson is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1998) and Harvard Law School (2001). In January of 2005, he co-founded The New Hampshire Review [9], a literary magazine. Formerly a public defender in New Hampshire, he is currently a student in the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

His poems have been published in AGNI, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Boston Review [10], Colorado Review, Florida Review, The Gettysburg Review [11], Harvard Review, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, jubilat, The Literary Review [12], New American Writing, New York Quarterly, Poetry, Poetry Daily [13], Potomac Review, Salmagundi, The Southern Review, Sycamore Review, Verse Daily [14][15], and elsewhere. His work has also been anthologized, including appearances in XConnect (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), Digerati: Twenty Contemporary Poets in the Virtual World (Three Candles Press, 2006) [16], and Law Poems (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming 2009).

A professional blogger and a former commentator for Air America Radio, Abramson was nominated for a Koufax Award in 2005 and a Rodney Award in 2007 [17][18].

[edit] Websites

  •   The Suburban Ecstasies (Author) [19]
  •   The Master of Fine Arts Blog (Contributor) [20]
  •   The Nashua Advocate (Author) [21]

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[edit] Selected Additional Publications

  •   American Literary Review [22]
  •   Antietam Review [23]
  •   Antioch Review
  •   Beloit Poetry Journal
  •   The Cincinnati Review
  •   Columbia Poetry Review
  •   Copper Nickel
  •   Denver Quarterly
  •   The Cream City Review
  •   Fourteen Hills [24]
  •   Green Mountains Review [25]
  •   The Journal
  •   Legal Studies Forum [26]
  •   LIT
  •   The Manhattan Review
  •   Meridian
  •   The Mississippi Review [27]
  •   Nimrod
  •   North Dakota Quarterly
  •   Notre Dame Review [28]
  •   Pleiades
  •   Portland Review
  •   Quarterly West
  •   Salt Hill
  •   The Seattle Review
  •   Southeast Review [29]
  •   Subtropics
  •   Swink [30]
  •   The Texas Review [31]
  •   Third Coast
  •   Verse
  •   Washington Square
  •   Western Humanities Review

[edit] References By Media


  1. ^ The Nashua Advocate was called one of the primary forces behind the challenge of Ohio's electors following the 2004 presidential election [1] and, according to the TTLB (Truth Laid Bear) measurement scale [2], briefly ranked among the top forty highest-traffic blogs in America [3]. In January of 2005, it received official designation as a news outlet by both Google News [4][5] and the Media Research Center [6].
  2. ^ The Suburban Ecstasies features the first comprehensive rankings of Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing programs since the 1997 rankings done by U.S. News and World Report. The site is also home to a compilation of MFA admissions information, including acceptance rates, class sizes, graduate placement data, and application response times. By April 2008, the site had received more than a quarter of a million unique visitors since its January 2007 introduction of updated MFA rankings [7].