Thomas DeFreitas

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  • Available!

    Swift River Ballad, my third collection with Kelsay Books, is now available both through the publisher and through Amazon. For more information, go to the navbar of this website, and click “3rd book”!

  • Swift River Ballad: accepted!

    Last Saturday brought word from Kelsay Books that the manuscript of my third collection, Swift River Ballad, containing twenty-three poems, has been accepted for publication toward the end of this calendar year. I am supremely grateful for Kelsay Books and their continued hospitality to my work!

  • Lyrical Somerville, thanks!

    Thanks to Doug Holder, editor of the “Lyrical Somerville” feature in The Somerville Times (Massachusetts), for publishing my poem “Dreaming of Somerville” on February 22!

  • Assembling a chapbook

    Hello, all. I haven’t posted here in a while. Not much news! But I am putting together poems for a third, chapbook-sized, collection. And I’m really enjoying the process of editing, selecting, refining, and revising. Also: the title! Which I’ll keep close to the vest for now.

  • IAWA Reading, 11/19

    I’m happy to report that I’ll be one of the two featured readers, along with Joy Baglio, at the next reading of the Italian-American Writers Association (Boston) at I Am Books, 124 Salem Street, North End (Boston), on Saturday, November 19th. The reading begins at 6 pm with open mic, followed by the two features, and ends at 8 pm.

  • Longfellow, Tell Me

    Well, the new book has been launched! Released late last month, it is available through Kelsay Books (the publisher) and through Amazon.

  • Thanks, Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY!

    Thanks to editor Christine Klocek-Lim for accepting my sonnet “She, Barkeep, to Him, Barfly” for today’s edition of Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY!

  • Poem in Lyrical Somerville

    Sincerest thanks to Doug Holder, editor of Lyrical Somerville, for choosing my poem “Working Girls” for the latest installment of the Lyrical, which appears each week in The Somerville (MA) Times!

  • Manuscript submitted!

    As of July 4, the edited manuscript for Longfellow, Tell Me has been submitted to Kelsay Books, along with blurbs and photographs; so, the ball is rolling! The process from this point until publication date generally takes at least two months. So stay tuned!

  • Longfellow, Tell Me

    On Friday last, I learned that Kelsay Books has accepted my second collection for publication! The book is called LONGFELLOW, TELL ME, and contains 41 poems, some quite old and some of recent provenance. Yay! I am so grateful to Kelsay Books for their continued hospitality to my work. (No publication date has been given yet, but I anticipate it will be sometime in early 2023.)