Sam Pierstorff

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  Demographix Magazine - Film Review - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/21/2007    Last Visited: 11/25/2007  

  Ever since the Winter of 2003 in a rural California town named Modesto, Sam Pierstorff a local poet, college English professor, and father organizes a world-class literary boxing match called The ILL List.

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  Editor's Note, QR# 6 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/14/2006    Last Visited: 4/14/2007  

  by Sam Pierstorff

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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/22/2003    Last Visited: 1/25/2003  

  Orange Coast College professor of English and technical writing, Don Pierstorff, has recently published a paperback book of poetry with his son, Sam Pierstorff, titled "The Albatross Lives."
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  Don and Sam are authors of "The Sauerkraut Burrito."
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  Sam has written three other books of poetry.
  
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  Sam writes of his deceased uncle:
  
  The sun flickers across the tops of marble headstones.My shadow lies dead behind me as I pause herein the graveyard where my uncle sleepsbeneath grass and the fresh lilies of mourners.
  
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  Sam Pierstorff is an English instructor at Modesto Junior College.He holds an M.F.A. degree in creative writing and poetry from California State University at Long Beach.Sam graduated from OCC with honors in 1995, and has read poetry publicly throughout southern and northern California.
  
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  Guerilla Poetics Project » 2007» June - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/1/2007    Last Visited: 6/11/2008  

  and a big thanks to Sam Pierstorff, editor at Quercus Review, and his entire staff of dedicated defenders of the word for the fine spread in the most recent issue. it's fantastic, with a lot of great poetry throughout, and some dandy coverage of the GPP. pick one up, it's worth the cover price for sure…
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  the big 192 page Quercus Review should be ready to go this week, and it features a long section on the GPP including scans of broadsides, essays and poetry by GPP Poets David Barker, Doug Draime, Christopher Harter, Michael Phillips, Ross Runfola, justin.barrett, Luis C. Berriozabal, Glenn W. Cooper, Tom Kryss, C. Allen Rearick, William Taylor Jr., Soheyl Dahi, Michael Kriesel, & Kathleen Paul-Flanagan. it should be a good one, and we hope you all support the small press by picking up an issue (and Sam tells me that all featured GPP Poets will recieve a contrib. copy, so if you're on that list above, look for it in the mail soon).

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  Guerilla Poetics Project » Blog Archive » #147, #148,... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/7/2008    Last Visited: 6/11/2008  

  and a big thanks to Sam Pierstorff, editor at Quercus Review, and his entire staff of dedicated defenders of the word for the fine spread in the most recent issue. it's fantastic, with a lot of great poetry throughout, and some dandy coverage of the GPP. pick one up, it's worth the cover price for sure…
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  and yes, big thanks to Sam and Quercus. a wonderful spread and a great introduction to our work. i wonder if we are legitimate and relevant now in the eyes of a certain webopedia that will not be mentioned?
  
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  ILL LIST SPONSORSHIP INFO - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/17/2006    Last Visited: 7/1/2007  

  Sam Pierstorff, Founder, Slam on Rye, (209) 238-3855

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  Meet the QR Editors - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/21/2008    Last Visited: 1/21/2008  

  Sam Pierstorff is currently the Poet Laureate of Modesto, CA.He teaches English at Modesto Junior College and is the founding editor of Quercus Review.He has published 100s of poems in numerous journals throughout the U.S., including Rattle, Free Lunch, Pearl, Slipstream, Nerve Cowboy, Chiron Review (cover feature), Louisiana Review, Sidewalks, StapleGun, and many others.He received his MFA from CSU Long Beach, and his latest collection, The Albatross Lives, was nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and was favorably reviewed by X.J. Kennedy who wrote, "Sam Pierstorff writes clear, straightforward, no-nonsense poems, full of infectious humor and strong feeling."
  
  As for his general tastes in poetry, he appreciates poetry with a pulse, poetry that's accessible and highly readable, humorous or insightful, poetry that always turns and transcends the obvious nature of things and guides readers into places they never saw coming.He likes "layers," poems that reveal themselves more and more upon closer readings but poetry that is at first clear and engaging.

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  Modbee.com | The Modesto Bee - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/22/2004    Last Visited: 9/23/2004  

  Slam master Sam Pierstorff was at the ticket table.I mentioned my quest.He tried to lower my expectations."You might not find it tonight."
  
  Pierstorff, a teacher at Modesto Junior College, is the poet laureate of Modesto and our host for the "Slam on Rye" poetry slams.I've seen him perform at other events.He's a regional treasure, a spicy pepper pot of poetic joy, the hardest-working man in verse, a dynamo of metaphorical bliss.And wickedly funny.

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  Modbee.com | The Modesto Bee - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/15/2004    Last Visited: 12/16/2004  

  "I think this will be like the O.J. (Simpson) trial," said 29-year-old Sam Pierstorff, the city's poet laureate and an English professor at Modesto Junior College.
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  "When I came here five years ago," Pierstorff said, "no one knew where Modesto was.People know Modesto now.We will never crawl out from under this case."
  
  Just as Los Angeles is tied to the Watts riots and Chicago to gangsters such as Al Capone, Pierstorff said Modesto always will conjure up images of the photogenic Laci Peterson, whose life, as well as the life of her unborn son, Conner, was snuffed out by her husband.
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  But for Pallotta, Pierstorff and others, the lasting effect of the Peterson murder is not a permanent stain, but a rebirth of hope and a reuniting of the community in a time of crisis.
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  Though Modesto is a city of more than 200,000, Pierstorff and Pallotta said that the heart of a small town still beats within its increasingly diverse neighborhoods.

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  Poetry Flash: NorCal Open Readings - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/21/2006    Last Visited: 6/3/2008  

  - Modesto Poetry Slam, with cash prizes, hosted by Sam Pierstorff, second Wednesday monthly, sign up 6:45, show 7:00, $3/$5 poet's fee.Prospect Theater, 520 Scenic Drive, Modesto.Directions: (209) 549-9341.Information: (209) 575-6183, e-mail: pierstorffs@mail.yosemite.cc.ca.us, www.slamonrye.com.

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