Sam Love

Awakening Sam Love

"I generally find contemporary poetry overly pretentious, and
intentionally opaque, but Sam's poetry is lucid and provocative. Fifty years ago, as one of the first Earth Day regional organizers, Sam played a key role in Earth Day's mobilizing millions of people. Now Sam writes beautifully of environmental shame and hope."

- Denis Hayes, President of the Bullitt Foundation and
National Coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970.


"Sam's musings on planetary survival emerged out of his pioneering work in the civil rights and environmental movements a half century ago, but have not stopped deepening. May the awakenings which have come to this big-hearted poet ripple out to transform our entire society, for Sam Love has become our modern-day Walt Whitman, a beam of light in this
moment of darkness."

- Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan, Author and Research Scientist on Southwestern Borderlands Food and Water Security at the University of Arizona.