Poetry Collections:
Birdwatching in Wartime
Renovation
Country of Lost Sons
Anthologies:
From the Fishouse
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Jeff's page on From the Fishouse (including some translations of the Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores)
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Jeff will soon be on Connecticut Public Access TV--check back for more details.
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jeffreythomson.com
Welcome to Jeffrey's home on the web.
Here you will find information on books by Jeffrey Thomson, his bio, upcoming readings, and contact information.
Jeffrey's Newest Books: Birdwatching in Wartime is out and was just awarded the 2010 Maine Book Prize in Poetry from the Maine Writers and Publishers Association.
The edited collection From the Fishouse: Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain SoundGreat is out too! Paula Bohince says, "The whole project has such a wonderful energy to it, and the organization is fantastic. The book will be used in so many classrooms..."
Jeffrey Thomson was the 2008 Individual Arts Fellow in the Literary Arts from the Maine Arts Commission. Major Jackson called his poetry, "Thinking that becomes sensuous." --
New -- Recording of some sample poems in Mp3 format for free download, plus a podcast of my reading at Bates College in March.
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(new poem, published in Brilliant Corners. |
Underwhelmed(from Birdwatching in Wartime) |
(from The Country of Losts Sons) |
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Ars Poetica with Pain (from Birdwatching in Wartime) |
Imaginary Numbers (from Renovation) |
(from Birdwatching in Wartime) |
Plato's Expulsion (from The Country of Lost Sons) |
From the Fishouse podcast of my reading at Bates College |
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system (new poem--published on Diode) |
COSTA RICA
Each January he leads (with Drew Barton, a tree ecologist) a student group to Costa Rica for two weeks. They work on environmental writing and scientific analysis of the wet rainforest of the Caribbean coast, the cloud forest of the central mountains and the dry rainforest of the Pacific coast.
Many of the poems in Birdwatching in Wartime arise from Thomson's experience in the rainforests of the American neotropics (Costa Rica and Peru in particular).
Click here to see more photos of Costa Rica.
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News and Updates
Birdwatching in Wartime won the 2010 Maine Book Award from the Maine Writers and Publishers Association.
And Jeff was awarded a Trustee Research Fellowship from the University fo Maine System for 2010-11 to finish his collection of essays: Landscape with Human Figure: Essays on Poetry and Place.
My appearence on Writers in the Round radio show is available HERE (60 + mgb mp3).
Podcast available from the From the Fishouse (my reading at Bates College): Here
Camille Dungy talks about "fabulous ones" on the Poetry Foundation blog. Thanks, Camille!
Our From the Fishouse anthology featured in Poets & Writers and now featured on the Poetry Foundation Blog
Spring readings in Chicago, Georgia, Connecticut, Vermont, and Kansas. More information on the Readings page.
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