Larry D. Thomas

Poet

New Mexico US

Email:

buffalonm@comcast.net

Website:

www.larrydthomas.com

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Author's Bio

The 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, Larry D. Thomas, has published twenty-three print collections of poems, most recently States of Red and Blue (a limited edition print chapbook published by Right Hand Pointing in late 2020). His most recent book-length collections are As If Light Actually Matters: New & Selected Poems, Boiling It Down: The Electronic Poetry Chapbooks of Larry D. Thomas, and In a Field of Cotton: Mississippi River Delta Poems. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Publications & Prizes

Books:

As If Light Actually Matters: New & Selected Poems (Texas Review Press, 2015)

Larry D. Thomas: New and Selected Poems (Texas Christian University Press, 2008)

The Fraternity of Oblivion (Timberline Press, 2008)

Stark Beauty (Timberline Press, 2005)

Where Skulls Speak Wind (Texas Review Press, 2004)

The Woodlanders (Pecan Grove Press, 2002)

The Lighthouse Keeper (Timberline Press, 2001)

Amazing Grace (Texas Review Press, 2001)

Chapbooks:

The Circus (Right Hand Pointing, 2008)

Eros (Slow Trains Literary Journal, 2007)

With the Light of Apricots (Lily Literary Review Press, 2007)

Journals:

Agave Magazine

Amethyst Review

Arkansas Review

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review

Canary

Chattahoochee Review

Chiron Review

Christian Science Monitor

Concho River Review

Deep South Magazine

Delta Poetry Review

Green Hills Literary Lantern

Grey Sparrow Journal

Louisiana Literature

Midwest Quarterly

Puerto del Sol

Rattle

Review Americana

Right Hand Pointing

San Pedro River Review

Southwest Review

Southwestern American Literature

Taos Journal of Poetry & Art

Texas Review

Valley Voices

Valparaiso Poetry Review

Voices de la Luna

War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities

Prizes won:

2023 Spur Award for Best Western Poem (sponsored by Western Writers of America); 2015 Western Heritage Wrangler Award; 2015 Writers' League of Texas Book Awards Finalist; 2007 Poets' Prize nomination (Nicholas Roerich Museum); 2004 Texas Review Poetry Prize; 2004 Violet Crown Book Award (Writers' League of Texas); 2003 Western Heritage Wrangler Award; 2002 Violet Crown Book Awards Special Citation; 2001 Texas Review Poetry Prize; Small Press Review "Pick-of-the-Issue" (May/June 2001); Summer 2000 Pecan Grove Press National Chapbook Competition Finalist citation; seven Spur Award Finalist citations; twelve Pushcart Prize nominations (two of which were by Pushcart contributing editors); three Best of the Net nominations.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, James Dickey, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, and Seamus Heaney.

What I'm reading now:

too many titles to list by too many authors to list

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Last update: Jan 06, 2024