Hello, all!
I’ll be reading poems from my new collection Elegies & Devotions at the Grolier Poetry Bookshop (6 Plympton Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge) on Wednesday, January 7, 2026 (just two weeks!) at 7 pm. I will be reading with Partridge Boswell and Benjamin Landry. Tom Daley will be introducing the poets. The event is hybrid. Sign-up for in-person spots (limited! and a small charge) or virtual attendance may be found at the Grolier website, here.
A few things!
Thanks for reading! Peace and light to all.
Greetings! I’ll be reading at the Robbins Library in Arlington, MA (700 Massachusetts Avenue) on June 17th at 7 pm.
I’ll be co-featuring with Pamela Alexander, author of Slow Fire and Navigable Waterways, and the recent chapbook Left. This reading is part of the New Books monthly series facilitated by Arlington’s Beehive Poets and by our laureate, Jean Flanagan.
An open-mic opportunity follows the featured readers. Join us if you can!
Walking Between the Raindrops can now be obtained from the publisher, and from other commercial outlets.
On Thursday came the news that my poem “Grief,” published in February by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, has been nominated by the editor of that journal for a Pushcart Prize! To Christine Klocek-Lim, the editor aforesaid, I offer wholehearted thanks.
Readers, hello! My fourth collection, Walking Between the Raindrops, has been accepted by Kelsay Books. We anticipate publication on or before March 1, 2025. Yay!
Sometime this winter, No Fixed Address Press in Boston will be releasing a broadsheet of 17 of my poems, a small collection entitled Changes & Chances. No Fixed Address publishes predominantly unhoused writers.
And on that subject! I would encourage you all to contribute to the MANNA program (Many Angels Needed Now & Always), a program based at the Cathedral Church of St Paul, Episcopal, on Tremont Street in Boston. MANNA not only helps the unhoused in material ways, but also helps to foster the collective and individual creativity of the community. (No Fixed Address is the imprint of the MANNA group of writers.)
I’m pleased to report that I’ll be reading with Anne Elezabeth Pluto at the Robbins Library in Arlington, MA (in the community room) on Tuesday 24th October at 7 pm. If you’re local, please come and listen! And participate in the open-mic!
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”!
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!
Thomas DeFreitas 