Literary Café at CFI featuring Charles Case and Sam Magavern
Charles Case lives in East Aurora with his wife and 5 daughters. He is a husband, father, poet, novelist, jazz snob, hiker, living-room guitar player, and reluctant (but very talented) lawyer – more or less in that order. His poetry has been published in Beyond Bones, A Celebration of Western New York Poets, Nomad, Peach Mag, Ghost City Review, Cholla Needles, and The Main Street Rag. His debut novel The Unfinished Child was published by Fat Dog Books. Finishing Line Press released his first full-length poetry collection Nectarines, Vodka, Sundays, and Death.
Sam Magavern is a writer and public interest lawyer in Buffalo, New York. His work includes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, scholarly articles, a movie screenplay, and a comic book. He is a co-founder of the Partnership for the Public Good and the founder of the Calamus Project.
Sam’s publications include a non-fiction book, Primo Levi’s Universe, and two books of poetry, Ovid’s Creek and Noah’s Ark. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Paris Review, and Antioch Review, and he is featured in the book Four Buffalo Poets. He wrote the screenplay for an independent feature film, The Last Word, and worked with musicians to create a novel-with-soundtrack, Ooh La La. In 2022 he founded the Calamus Project, a collaboration that brings Walt Whitman’s poems to life through films, a website, and events.
Sam is the senior policy fellow at Partnership for the Public Good, a community-based think tank that he co-founded in 2007 and co-directed until 2019. He teaches at University at Buffalo Law School and Cornell University ILR School, where he was the Visiting Activist Scholar in 2019-2020. He serves as volunteer attorney for the City of Buffalo Living Wage Commission and as a commissioner on the Niagara River Greenway Commission, as well as a board member for Tupelo Press and the Winkelman Farm Conservation Corporation.
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