Seth Abramson
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Abramson at WUNH
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| Born |
October 31, 1976 Concord, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Poet, editor, attorney, freelance journalist, professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Master of Fine Arts, Juris Doctor, Doctor of Philosophy |
| Literary movement | Metamodernism |
Seth Abramson (born October 31, 1976) is an American poet, editor, attorney, freelance journalist, and professor.
Currently an Assistant Professor of English at University of New Hampshire, Abramson is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the doctoral program in English at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He writes a blog on contemporary poetry for The Huffington Post and is a regular columnist for Indiewire. Abramson's Indiewire column focuses on films, television programs, and video games informed by metamodernism.Publishers Weekly notes that Abramson has "picked up a very large following as a blogger and commentator, covering poetry, politics, and higher education, and generating a controversial, U.S. News-style ranking of graduate programs in writing." Before joining the faculty of University of New Hampshire, Abramson was an attorney for the New Hampshire Public Defender and a commentator for Air America Radio.
Abramson has published a number of books and anthologies. Publishers Weekly describes Abramson as "serious and ambitious...uncommonly interested in general statements, in hard questions, and harder answers, about how to live."
Colorado Review called Northerners, Abramson's second collection of poetry, "alternately expansive and deeply personal...of crystalline beauty and complexity," terming Abramson "a major American voice."Notre Dame Review echoed the sentiment, calling Abramson "a powerful voice."
Abramson won the 2008 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry. Editor Don Share said of Abramson's "What I Have," "The poem absorbs certain details but doesn't fasten upon them the way poets are tempted to do; it's not adjectival, it's not descriptive, it's not painting a kind of canvas with scenery on it, and yet those details are really fascinating."
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