Publications: (Creative Work)
(2009). “Constant Elevation”. Polaris. (Poem)
(2012). “Jupiter or its Low Narrative [sic]”. Metaphor. (Poem)
(2016). “Slow Motion Landscape”. Prism Review. (Poem)
(2016). “MARMOREAL”. Forgotten. (Poem)
(2016). “:FLOTSAM”. Ruminate. (Poem)
(2016). “Buildup of Salt”. Prime Number. (Poem)
(2017). “Kenosis”. Birds Piled Loosely 2016 Election Anthology. (Poem)
(2017). “This Molting Begun”. Halophyte. (Poem)
(2017). “Reckon”. Halophyte. (Poem)
(2017). “(alloy)”. READR. (Poem)
(2018). “Waiting for Dusk (1)”. Meat for Tea: The Valley Review. (Poem)
(2018). “Waiting for Dusk (2)”. Meat for Tea: The Valley Review. (Poem)
(2018). “Waiting for Dusk (3)”. Meat for Tea: The Valley Review. (Poem)
(2018). “Morning”. Panoplyzine. (Poem)
(2018). “Intent”. Mistake House Magazine. (Poem)
(2018). “With Flying Colors, With Beat of Drums”. Mistake House Magazine.(Poem)
(2018). “Given a Name”. Sonora Review. (Poem)
(2018). “I Asked if You Could Hear Me”. Red Flag Poetry. (Poem)
(2018). “Self-Portrait (I’ve Said My Piece)”. The Canopy Review. (Poem)
(2018). “This Gesture (Frame by Frame)”. Genre: Urban Arts. (Poem)
(2018). “Like Echo Bound”. Omniverse. (Poem)
(2018). “The Smell of Fumes”. The Boiler Journal. (Poem)
(2019). “Pomp”. Colorado Review. (Poem)
(2019). “Lastly”. Colorado Review. (Poem)
(2019). “Will to Life”. Tiny Seed Journal. (Poem)
(2019). “‘red’ for derek beaulieu”. Angry Old Man Magazine. (Poem)
(2019). “The Noises of the Garden Among the Noises of the Room”. Angry Old Man Magazine. (Poem)
(2019). “Vision I”. The Bombay Gin. (Poem)
(2019). “Vision II”. The Bombay Gin. (Poem)
(2019). “Vision III”. The Bombay Gin. (Poem)
(2019). “Vision IV”. The Bombay Gin. (Poem)
(2019). “Vision V”. The Bombay Gin. (Poem)
(2019). “False Promise”. Night Music Journal. (Poem)
(2019). “Do You Ever Have The Feeling That the World’s Gone and Left You Behind”. Night Music Journal. (Poem)
(2019). “Self-Portrait (Amor Fati)”. Night Music Journal. (Poem)
(2019). “Close Your Eyes”. Oxidant Engine. (Poem)
(2019). “Numbness”. Oxidant Engine. (Poem)
(2023). “Suspension of Refusal”. Stinkbeat Review. (Poem)
(2023). “11/30/13 It’s a Saturday — Paul Walker is dead”. Past Ten. (Poem)
(2024). “If Only to Look”. The Write Launch. (Poem)
(2023). “All or Nothing”. La Piccioletta Barca. (Poem)
(2023). “Abeyance”. La Piccioletta Barca. (Poem)
(2023). “Wasted in Extravagance”. Wingless Dreamer. (Poem)
(2023). “AGAIN THAT FEELING”. Humans of the World. (Poem)
(2023). “Come to a world”. Half and One. (Poem)
(2023). “I Need Yesterdays”. Epiphany. (Poem)
(2023). “(CAREFUL PLANNING)”. The Closed Eye Open. (Poem)
(2023). “Through the Years”. Wild Roof Journal. (Poem)
(2024). “A Brief Incident”. The Spectacle. (Poem)
(2024). “SLOW MOVEMENT AND A REMOVING”. Clepsydra Literary and Art Magazine. (Poem)
(2024). “Beyond The Casual Solitudes”. From Whispers to Roars. (Poem)
(2024). “Close Your Eyes”. From Whispers to Roars. (Poem)
(2024). “Parting Green From Green”. Drunk Monkeys. (Poem)
(2024). “False Promise”. Stinkbeat Review. (Poem)
(2024). “Boustrophedon”. Stinkbeat Review. (Poem)
(2024). “Gestures in Blue Light”. Pumpernickel House. (Poem)
(2024). “Into the Dim Light”. BarBar. (Poem)
(2024). “Current or Currently”. StreetLit. (Poem)
(2024). “Your Clothes in Tatters”. The Write Launch. (Poem)
(2024). “Into the Slow Air”. The Closed Eye Open. (Poem)
(2024). “Limits of Vibration”. Suspended Magazine. (Poem)
(2024). “From the Dark Bough”. Midsummer Dream House. (Poem)
(2024). “Music in Time”. WILDSound. (Poem)
(2025). “Into the Dim Light”. The Shortlist: BarBar Best of 2024. (Poem)
(2025). “11/30/13 It’s a Saturday — Paul Walker is dead”. The Past Ten: An Anthology, ed. by Donald Quist. Cornerstone Press. (Poem)
Publications: (Books)
(2024). Self-Portraits as a Reddening Sky. Cathexis Northwest Press. (Chapbook)
(2025). As Already Happens. Bottlecap Press. (Chapbook)
Publications: (Critical Work)
Gilpin, Sam (2010). “Grammar Won the State: Peter Seaton’s Agreement”. Enormous Rooms. (Critical Paper)
Gilpin, Sam (2019). “A Home Ascribed to this World — A Review of Roberto Harrison’s Yaviza”. Interim Poetics. (Book Review)
Gilpin, Sam (2019). “Drugs, Dreams, and Romantic Poetry: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’”. Sing, Goddess: Essays on World Literature, ed. by Jarret Keene, Norton, p.77-83. (Book Chapter)
Gilpin, Sam (2019). “The Darién Gap of Incantatory Poetics: Panamanian Vision and Indigenous Futurism in Roberto Harrison’s Yaviza”. Select Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference: Games, Sins, & Mafia hosted by the UNLV Department of World Languages & Cultures and the Organization of Vistas of Hispanic Studies, ed. by Jarret Keene, UNLV Department of World Languages & Cultures, p.3-10. (Critical Paper)
Gilpin, Sam (2019). “‘Something / Sacred Something Wholly / Mundane’: A Review of Joshua McKinney’s Small Sillion”. Interim Poetics. (Book Review)
Presentations:
Gilpin, Sam (2010). “Grammar Won the State: Peter Seaton’s Agreement”. Paper presented at ESAC Conference at the University of Utah.
Gilpin, Sam (2012). “Jupiter or it’s Low Narrative [sic]”. Poem presented at National Undergraduate Literature Conference at Weber State.
Gilpin, Samuel (2018). “The Edge of Chaos”. Poem presented at Far West Popular Culture Conference at the Palace Station Casino, hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Gilpin, Sam (2019). “The Mimesis of the Ambient Movie Star: Heath Ledger in Tan Lin’s Heath Course Pac”. Paper presented at Far West Popular Culture Conference at the Palace Station Casino, hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Gilpin, Sam (2019). “The Darién Gap of Incantatory Poetics: Panamanian Vision and Indigenous Futurism in Roberto Harrison’s Yaviza”. Paper presented at 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference: Games, Sins, & Mafia hosted by the UNLV Department of World Languages & Cultures and the Organization of Vistas of Hispanic Studies.
Exhibitions:
Gilpin, Sam and Sean Slattery (2018). “Deus Sive Natura”. Seeing><Saying, Nevada Humanities Program Gallery. (Screen printing on canvas)
Berenguel, Leo and Sam Gilpin (2019). “Abeyance”. Composers Forum presents: New Collaborations, Dr. Arturo Rando Recital Hall, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (Musical adaptation)
Berenguel, Leo and Sam Gilpin (2019). “Abeyance”. Concordance (New Pairings of Literature and Music), Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (Musical adaptation)
Gilpin, Samuel (2019). “Poem Beginning with a Line from Rilke”. Imagine Nevada: Nevada Artists and Poets Celebrate 10 Years of Illustrated Words Exhibitions, Nevada Program Gallery. (Poem)
Public Readings:
Gilpin, Samuel (2018). BMI PhD Fellows Reading. Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Gilpin, Samuel (2018). Neon Lit. Writer’s Block Bookstore, Las Vegas, NV.
Gilpin, Sam (2019). BMI PhD Fellows Reading. Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Gilpin, Sam (2019). Neon Verse in the Post-Digital Age. Las Vegas Book Festival, Las Vegas, NV. (Panel on Literary Editorship)
Editorial Roles:
2017-2018. Assistant Poetry Editor. Witness Magazine.
2018-2020. Poetry Editor. Witness Magazine.
2018-2020. Book Review Editor. Interim Poetics.
2019-2020. Community Outreach Organizer. Neon Lit Reading Series.
Awards and Honors:
Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society
2010 ESAC Critical Paper Award winner. “Grammar Won the State: Peter Seaton’s Agreement”. (Critical Paper)
2016 Prism Review Poetry Contest winner. Judge: Victoria Chang. “Slow Motion Landscape”. (Poem)
2016 Prime Number Magazine Award for Poetry Finalist. Judge: Kelly Cherry. “Buildup of Salt”. (Poem)
2016 Cleveland State University First Poetry Book Competition Finalist. Judge: Daniel Borzutzky. Spawl. (Manuscript)
2016 Ruminate Magazine Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize Finalist. Judge: Alice Fulton. “Flotsam”. (Poem)
2017 Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize Finalist. Judge: Arthur Sze. loll. (Manuscript)
2018 Cleaveland State University First Poetry Book Competition Semi-Finalist. Judge: CA Conrad. Apoptosis. (Manuscript)
2019 Sutra Press Chapbook Contest Finalist. A Borrowed Shine. (Manuscript)
2019 Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Poetry Prize Finalist. Judge: Brian Teare. Apoptosis. (Manuscript)
2019 UNLV Summer Doctoral Research Fellowship
2019 GASHER Journal Chapbook Contest Finalist. A Borrowed Shine. (Manuscript)
2019 Lost Horse Press Idaho Prize Longlist. Apoptosis. (Manuscript)
2024 Cathexis Northwest Press Unpublished Chapbook Contest. Self-Portraits as a Reddening Sky. (Chapbook)
Education:
High School Diploma, Vista Private School, Magna, UT, 2007
B.A., English, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 2012
MFA, Writing, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, 2017
Ph.D, English, Black Mountain Institute Ph.D Fellow, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, 2020