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Jeffrey Thomson's most recent books are two limited collector's editions. The first is a chapbook~ Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge ~ from RopeWalk Press (2007) and the second is an artist's book, Blind Desire, printed in English and Braille with photographs of Dennis Marsico from Dionysus Press (2006).
He also has three full-length collections of poems. Renovation was part of Carnegie Mellon University Press' 2005 30th annual poetry series. The Country of Lost Sons, his second collection, innagurated a new poetry series at Parlor Press (Purdue University) in 2004. His first collection, The Halo Brace, was printed in a limited edition letterpress volume from Birch Brook Press. His awards include a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2006 Creative Artists Fellowship in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the 2008 Fellowship in the Literary Arts from the Maine Arts Commission, as well as fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference and Writers @ Work. He has published recent poetry and nonfiction in Quarterly West, Isotope, Indiana Review, Sycamore Review, Brilliant Corners, Gulf Coast, and Willow Springs, as well as essays on Sandra Cisneros, James Wright, Derek Walcott and the environmental elegy. Currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Maine at Farmington he received his Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri in 1996. |
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