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Samantha Imperi

Samantha Imperi, portrait
Graduate Student
Ellis 347, Athens Campus

Doctoral Student, Concentration in Creative Writing

Education:

MFA in Poetry, NEOMFA Program, The University of Akron, graduated 2023
BA in English, The University of Akron, graduated 2018
AA, The University of Akron, graduated 2016

Teaching Experience:

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Graduate Assistantship, Instructor
Writing and Rhetoric, Writing and Research, Introduction to Poetry and Drama

The University of Akron

Graduate Assistantship, Instructor, August 2021 ā€“ May 2023
English Composition I, English Composition II

Publications:

Poetry

ā€œ.ā€ The Scapegoat Review, Winter 2024, online, December, 2024. 

ā€œ.ā€ The Headlight Review, vol. 3, no. 1, online, December 23, 2024.

ā€œ.ā€ The Headlight Review, vol. 3, no. 1, online, December 23, 2024.

ā€œ.ā€ The Headlight Review, vol. 3, no. 1, online, December 23, 2024.

ā€œWombman.ā€ The Pinch Journal, vol. 44, no. 2, print, November 2024.

ā€œ.ā€ Allium Literary Journal, online, November 2024. 

ā€œThe Gingko Drops Her Leaves.ā€ Humana Obscura, issue 10, online and print, September 22, 2024.

ā€œYou, turning forty.ā€ Passengers Literary Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, online, September 2024.

ā€œā€ New Feathers Anthology, July 19, 2024.

ā€œ.ā€ Canary Lit Mag, June 20, 2024.

. Sixfold, March 2024. 

ā€œ.ā€ Wild Roof Journal, Nov 2023. 

ā€œ.ā€ The Great Lakes Review, June 2023. 

ā€œ.ā€ The Great Lakes Review, June 2023.

ā€œShake.ā€ The Festival Review, digital edition, April 28, 2023.

ā€œ.ā€ The Blood Pudding, January 1, 2023. 

ā€œ.ā€ The Dewdrop, October 16, 2022. 

ā€œTo my daughter, on shaving.ā€ Lighthouse Weekly, August 30, 2022.

ā€œSiren Longs for Companionship.ā€ Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Issue 14, print and digital edition, May 2021.

Fiction

ā€œComing Home Late.ā€ 1-70 Review, print, September 2024.

ā€œ.ā€ Voidz Mag, May 2024. 

Conference Presentations

Critical

"Writing the Narrative Poem: Telling Stories Through Traditional Poetic Techniques"

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 21, 2025

ā€œPlaying in the Present Tenseā€

Winter Wheat Festival, Bowling Green State University, November 8, 2024

ā€œThe Power of Personaā€

Winter Wheat Festival, Bowling Green State University, November 11, 2023

Creative

Reader, ā€œI Canā€™t Be Your Motherā€

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Annual Symposium, East Lansing, Michigan, May 2024

Readings and Workshops:

Reader, Quarter After Eight Monthly Reading Series

Quarter After Eight Literary Journal, 51ĀŅĀ×, Athens, Ohio, November 2024

Presenter, Poetry Workshop, ā€œBeautiful Words: An Exploration of Contemporary Sound Poeticsā€

The Calendar Ohio, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, January 2024

Reader, Quarter After Eight Monthly Reading Series

Quarter After Eight Literary Journal, 51ĀŅĀ×, Athens, Ohio, September 2023

Reader, Lit Youngstown Monthly Reader Series

Lit Youngstown, Youngstown, Ohio, January 2022