Sam Calhoun
@weathermansam.bsky.social
🌲Geoscientist. Poet. Nature Photographer. Eight chapbooks. 2x BOTN/Pushcart NOM 🌲 EIC Tanasi River Review🌲@visitnorthal Ambassador www.weathermansam.com
Flow where you can. Bankhead National Forest, AL. #visitnorthal #hiking #waterfall #fyp #lifeisgood
My haiku was selected and included in the Pakistan Japan Cultural Association’s First International Multilingual Haiku Anthology, out today. I guess this counts as having my work translated into other languages? ladybugs on my window— sakura in bloom pjca-isb.org/pjca-1st-int...
The Official Spokespuppers of the Tanasi River Review are LOVING your submissions (and the treats)! There is still time to send work in! Submissions close tonight! Read issue 1 and send us some nature poems! tanasiriverreview.neocities.org/journals
My 8th chapbook of poems, ‘Small Joys’, and fourth in the annual series of Origami Poems Projects is out and available for free download/printing. All of my micro-chapbooks are free and be found here: www.origamipoems.com/poets/557-sa...
I’ve got new poetry up in this issue of Ballast! Check it out!
ballast journal@ballastjournal.bsky.social · last mo.Ballast 4.2 is LIVE! www.ballastjournal.com/issue-42-tab... Featuring: Denver Butson Sam Calhoun @weathermansam.bsky.social vincent a cellucci Rocío Cerón translated by Dana Delibovi Seth Copeland @brushwithseth.bsky.social Emily Corwin AJ Dehan Connor Fisher Egan Garr Anne Gerard 1/2
The sounds of McCormick Creek, IN. #waterfall #nature #lifeisgood #asmr
Beauty of a falls at McCormick’s Creek State Park, IN. #waterfall #hiking #lifeisgood #mccormickscreek #indiana
Tall and graceful falls in Bankhead National Forest, AL. #waterfall #hiking #visitnorthal #bankhead #lifeisgood
I won First Place in the Expressions of Freedom Art Contest, sponsored by America 250 Alabama, the official State of Alabama event celebration of the nations’s 250th! The event and award ceremony will be at American Village in Montevallo, AL July 3-4th. america250al.org/expressions-...
New poem out in this year’s Stafford Challenge Anthology. #writing #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
A minute with the moon. Elkmont, AL. #moon #frog #moonlight #moonlovers #visitnorthal
Just a quiet place in Bankhead National Forest, AL #hiking #waterfall #lifeisgood #visitnorthal
A Quiet Cascade, Bankhead National Forest, AL. #hiking #visitnorthal #waterfall #lifeisgood #nature
New poem up at Dipity! www.dipitylitmag.com/post/year-en...
Year Ending by Sam Calhoun
Step out ontothe cold decktwenty fivedegrees notcold enoughfor the wrenssheltered inhalf dead fernsone green sprigreachingfor the door—refill the feederslet cold boardskiss bare feet,wanting to stickw...
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Off I go again into the hollows of Bankhead National Forest, AL #hiking #visitnorthal #waterfall #lifeisgood #nature
Some great news I’ve been waiting to share. My new poetry chapbook “The Call-back” is now available through Bottlecap Press ! #poet #poetry #bottlecappress bottlecap.press/products/_ca...
The Call-back, by Sam Calhoun
Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. We experience call-backs all the time, though we may not recognize them. The world in many ways requests a return, or an answer. The concept behind...
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Well the week is starting on a good note. My SECOND ever Pushcart nomination! Wildly surprised and happy!
Dishsoap Quarterly@dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 8mo agoIt's our first year doing this, but -- here's our nominations for the 2026 Pushcart Prize! If you haven't checked these lovely pieces out already, you should go give them a read :)
Whoa. Floored and honored to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize from @paddlerpress.bsky.social ! My first!
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.