Printable view of Larry D. Thomas

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

NM

New Mexico US

Email:

buffalonm@comcast.net

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.

Favorite authors:

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

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Website:

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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); five Best of the Net nominations.

What I'm reading now:

too many titles to list by too many authors to list