Jeffrey Thomson
Jeffrey Thomson’s third book of poems,
Renovation, was part of the
Carnegie Mellon University Press (CMU) poetry series in 2005. His second collection of poems,
The Country of Lost Sons, inaugurated a new poetry series from
Parlor Press at Purdue University in February 2004, and his first book,
The Halo Brace, was brought out in a limited edition letterpress version from Birch Brook Press in 1998. Winner of recent fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Maine, Farmington. He has three books due out in 2009: a new collection of poems,
Birdwatching in Wartime (
CMU Press); a collection of poems translated from the Spanish of Juan Carlos Flores,
Many Ways to Dig a Tunnel (
Green Integer); and
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (
Persea Books, 2009), edited with
Camille T. Dungy and
Matt O'Donnell.
Posted on September 24, 2006 6:19 AM
