Sam Johnson is a Midwestern poet with periods of study and work in New York and Toronto. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, The Malahat Review, Negative Capability and in more offbeat publications such as the Giant Canadian Poetry Review. He has two volumes of poetry, self-published, Cuttings and Senex Says. Buddhism has become a significant framework for his later life and work. He lives in Northfield, Minnesota with his wife, the philosopher Patricia Altenbernd Johnson.
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Small Exchanges by Sam F. Johnson is a quietly expansive collection of poems that transforms the ordinary into something revelatory. With clarity, wit, and deep attention, these poems move through gardens, birds, caregiving, books, and the small moments that shape a life. In place of easy answers, Johnson offers insight, surprise, and a powerful sense that meaning often arrives in passing—in the brief exchange, the overheard phrase, the glance, the detail that lingers. These poems remind us that the smallest encounters can leave the deepest impression.
—Leah Huete de Maines, Poet-in-Residence Emerita, Northern Kentucky University
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