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!
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!
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.
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!
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.)
Thomas DeFreitas 