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Seth Abramson (1976-) is an American poet.

Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Seth Abramson is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A., English, 1998) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 2001). He is currently a student in the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. The founder and poetry editor of an online literary journal, The New Hampshire Review , his blog, The Suburban Ecstasies , has averaged six thousand visitors a month since its inception in May of 2005 . The Suburban Ecstasies features the first comprehensive rankings of U.S. creative writing (M.F.A.) programs since U.S. News and World Report ranked these programs in 1997 . The site, which was nominated for a Koufax Award in 2005 , is also home to a compilation of M.F.A. admissions information--including acceptance rates , class sizes , graduate placement data , and application response times --previously unavailable in a single online repository. Abramson is also a contributor to the Master of Fine Arts Blog , founded by American writer Tom Kealey.

His poems have been published in dozens of literary journals, including AGNI, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review , Colorado Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Florida Review, The Gettysburg Review , Harvard Review, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, jubilat, The Literary Review , Pleiades, Poetry Daily , Salmagundi, The Southern Review, Verse, Verse Daily , Washington Square, and Western Humanities Review. In 2004, New Orleans Review nominated his work for a Pushcart Prize. His work has also been anthologized, including appearances in XConnect (University of Pennsylvania Press) and Digerati: Twenty Contemporary Poets in the Virtual World .

His prose has been featured online by Rolling Stone , Nerve , and The Dartmouth . From 2004 to 2006, he was sole proprietor of, and writer for, a political news website called The Nashua Advocate , which at its zenith in early 2005 received as many as 25,000 visitors a day . According to the TTLB measurement scale, The Nashua Advocate was briefly among the top forty highest-traffic blogs in America, and in January of 2005 gained a listing as a major news outlet from both Google News and the Media Research Center .

A one-time political commentator for Air America Radio, his essays on politics have been featured on Air America Minnesota and The Mike Malloy Show ("Do Not Weep for Terri," March 23, 2005; "In Terri Schiavo Case, Republicans Usher in Era of Massive Government Meddling," March 24, 2005; and "The Schiavo Circus," March 29, 2005).

Selected Additional Publications

•   32 Poems
  
•   The Alsop Review
  
•   American Literary Review
  
•   Antietam Review
  
•   The Cincinnati Review
  
•   The Cream City Review
  
•   Flint Hills Review
  
•   Fourteen Hills
  
•   Green Mountains Review
  
•   Hawai'i Review
  
•   International Poetry Review
  
•   The Journal
  
•   Legal Studies Forum
  
•   Louisville Review
  
•   The Marlboro Review
  
•   Meridian
  
•   The Mississippi Review
  
•   National Poetry Review
  
•   Nimrod
  
•   North Dakota Quarterly
  
•   Notre Dame Review
  
•   Portland Review
  
•   The Potomac Review
  
•   Quarterly West
  
•   River City
  
•   Salt Hill
  
•   The Seattle Review
  
•   South Dakota Review
  
•   Southeast Review
  
•   Swink
  
•   The Sycamore Review
  
•   The Texas Review
  
•   Third Coast
  
•   The William & Mary Review
  
•   Wisconsin Review
  

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