Thomas DeFreitas

Thomas DeFreitas (he/they) was born in Boston in 1969. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, and attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst for three semesters. His poems have appeared in Dappled Things, Ibbetson Street, LIGHT, Pensive, and elsewhere.

In the summer of 2019, Thomas’s sonnet “Detox” was chosen as an Award Poem by the editors of Plainsongs. In 2024, Thomas’s poem “Grief” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editor of Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY.

Thomas’s five collections have all been published by Kelsay Books: his full-length books Walking Between the Raindrops (2025) and Longfellow, Tell Me (2022), and his chapbooks Elegies & Devotions (2025), Swift River Ballad (2023), and Winter in Halifax (2021).

A resident of Arlington, MA, Thomas is a contributing member of the Academy of American Poets. He is also active in the New England Poetry Club, Boston’s Black Seed Writers, Arlington’s Beehive Poetry Group, and a top-secret quartet of clandestine bards called the Honeycomb, who are currently plotting to take over the entire explorable universe and saturate it in lyrical benevolence.