Tom Holmes

Poet

Hattiesburg, MS
Mississippi US

Author's Bio

Tom Holmes is the editor of Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose and the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently The Cave, which won The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award for 2013 and will be released in 2014. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize seven times and his work has appeared a number of times on Verse Daily. His writings about wine, poetry book reviews, and poetry can be found at his blog, The Line Break: http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Cave (Bitter Oleander Press, 2014)
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Poems for an Empty Church (Palettes & Quills, 2011)
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Henri, Sophie, & The Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound: Poems Blasted from the Vortex (BlazeVOX books, 2009)
Chapbooks:
The Oldest Stone in the World (Amsterdam Press, 2011)
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Pre-Dew Poems (Foothills Publishing, 2008)
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Negative Time (Pudding House Publications, 2007)
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After Malaguena (Foothills Publishing, 2005)
Journals: , ,
Alabama Literary Review
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Apalachee Review
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Birmingham Poetry Review
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Blood Lotus
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Blue Lyra Review
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Camroc Press Review
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Chaffin Journal
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Chronogram
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Dirty Chai
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Ellipsis
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Epicenter
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Gentle Strength Quarterly
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George Washington Review
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Illumen
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Journal of Kentucky Studies
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Knockout Literary Magazine
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Miller's Pond
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Mississippi Review
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MO: Writings from the River
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New Zoo Review
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Oak Bend Review
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OVS Magazine
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Pacific Coast Journal
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Pemmican Press
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Pennsylvania English
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Prism Quarterly
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River Poets Journal
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Rockhurst Review
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Santa Clara Review
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Sheepshead Review
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Soul Fountain
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Space & Time
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Stolen Island Review
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Stone Highway Review
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Stringtown
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Suisun Valley Review
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Terminus
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The Centrifugal Eye
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The Great American Poetry Show
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The Griffin
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The Houston Literary Review
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The Madison Review
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The Rambler
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The Round
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The Storyteller
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The Strange Fruit
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Turbulence
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Verse Daily
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Wavelength
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Weave Magazine
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Xavier Review
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Prizes won: 

The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award for 2013.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
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Last update: Apr 24, 2015