Jeffrey Thomson
Jeffrey Thomson is the author of four books of poems, including Birdwatching in Wartime, winner of the 2010 Maine Book Award, and Renovation. He also co-edited an anthology of emerging poets: From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Arts Commission, and, most recently, was named the 2008 Individual Arts Fellow in the Literary Arts by the Maine Arts Commission. He is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Maine Farmington.
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Ed: Updated January 2011.
First posted on September 24, 2006 6:19 AM
- Jeffrey Thomson at Bates College, March 5, 2009
- Jeffrey Thomson full reading at Bates College
- Landscape with Swelling and Hives (live, Bates)
- Landscape with Urban Elephants (live, Bates)
- those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush (live, Bates)
- those that are trained (live, Bates)
- fabulous ones (live, Bates)
- those that tremble as if they were mad (live, Bates)
- innumerable ones (live, Bates)
- those that have just broken a flower vase (live, Bates)
- Underwhelmed (live, Bates)
- Ars Poetica with Pain (live, Bates)
- Stalin on Stage (live, Bates)
- Against Prognostication (live, Bates)
- Imaginary Numbers (live, Bates)
- Personal (live, Bates)
- This is a Test of the Emergency Broadcast System (live, Bates)
- Jokes (live, Bates)
- Ain't Misbehavin' (live, Bates)
- Section LIII of The Halo Brace (live, Bates)
- Audience Q&A (live, Bates)
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Set
- NASA
- For the Puppets
- K the Cyclist
- Encased in Gé1
- The Chair
- Ars Poetica with Pain
- Against Prognostication
- Imaginary Numbers
- fabulous ones
- innumerable ones
- those that have just broken a flower vase
- Underwhelmed
- Jeffrey Thomson Q&A on the genesis of three poems
- Jeffrey Thomson Q&A on how he became interested in poetry
- Jeffrey Thomson Q&A with advice to young poets
- Jeffrey Thomson