Poetry. Poet Sam Pereira has recently published a collection of poetry called A CAFE IN BOCA. "Reading Sam's poems is a little like falling down a magic rabbit hole: the world you thought you knew gets rearranged and what you're likely to encounter is 'pain or the funniest thing in America,' often both in the same moment. Sam has a certain dead-pan way of inventing stories in a lingo that makes them all the more remarkable. He's an original"--Peter Everwine.

American poet Sam Pereira was born in Los Banos, California on April 17, 1949. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Fresno (1971) and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa (1975), where he was a student in the legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has published two earlier books of poetry: The Marriage of the Portuguese (L'Epervier Press, 1978) and Brittle Water (Abattoir Editions/Penumbra Press, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1987). A third book, A Cafe in Boca, was released in 2007 by Tebot Bach. He lives in the San Joaquin Valley of California with his wife, the writer Susan R. G. Pereira, and is an English teacher in California's public school system.