Sam Sax
Lecturer
Stanford Introductory Studies
Bio
Sam Sax is a writer, performer, and educator currently serving as an ITALIC Lecturer at Stanford University. They're the author of Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and ‘Bury It’ winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They're the two time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Granta and elsewhere. Sam's received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, The Poetry Foundation, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Stanford Introductory Studies
2023-24 Courses
- Art Worlds: Conversations between Artists and Scholars
ITALIC 92 (Win) - Art Everywhere: How Art Moves and Moves Us
ITALIC 93 (Spr) - Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Writing Section
ITALIC 95W (Win) - Why Art?
ITALIC 91 (Aut) -
Prior Year Courses
2022-23 Courses
- Art Worlds: Conversations between Artists and Scholars
ITALIC 92 (Win) - Art Everywhere: How Art Moves and Moves Us
ITALIC 93 (Spr) - Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Writing Section
ITALIC 95W (Win) - Queer Poetry and Poetics
ENGLISH 150J (Spr) - Why Art?
ITALIC 91 (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Challenging
ITALIC 93 (Spr) - Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Creating
ITALIC 91 (Aut) - Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Writing Section
ITALIC 95W (Win)
- Art Worlds: Conversations between Artists and Scholars