Schmidt, Sam

Sam Schmidt’s first poetry collection, “Suburban Myths” (Beothuk Books, 2012) has just been published. He is founder and editor of WordHouse, Baltimore’s newsletter for writers (1993 to 2004) and coeditor of the anthology Poetry Baltimore: Poems About a City and has been published in a number of literary journals including the Maryland Poetry Review, Potomac Review, Gargoyle, Poets Against War, and The Potomac: A Journal of Poetry and Politics. His work has been anthologized in Weavings 2000, Maryland’s millennium anthology edited by Michael Glaser. Schmidt received his MA from the Johns Hopkins University. He is currently working on a novel in verse.