I’ll be reading at the Mass Audubon Nature Center at Magazine Beach Park, Cambridge (668 Memorial Drive), on Sunday, September 6th of this year (I believe that’s Labor Day Eve!) with Roberta Batorsky and Miriam Maglani. Registration is required for this free event, which runs from 4 to 6 pm. A link with some of the basic info is here.
Tag: poetry
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Spring ’26 Update
Friends, here’s a bit of what’s been going on.
Kelsay Books has accepted my full-length manuscript of 43 poems, Stars Bestow Their Quadrillionary Blessing. We’re anticipating publication in August of this year.
My mom died on February 12th at the age of 81. I’ve posted my eulogy for her under the Prose tab. If you’re inclined to, send a good thought heavenward on her behalf, or simply hold space in some compassionate and meaningful way. Any gesture of this kind is profoundly appreciated.
My Substack is plugging along! It’s called The Crystal Tambourine. Go there to get a glimpse of my sometimes wonky early drafts!
And I’ve been blameworthily laggard in submitting to journals. But I am being faithful to my practice of writing every day.
Oh, yes! Almost forgot! There’ll be a reading, details still being worked out, in September at Magazine Beach in Cambridge where I’ll be one of the features. Keep an eye on this space for further details as the event approaches.
That’s all for now. Peace and light.
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Reading at the Robbins!
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!
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New book out!
Walking Between the Raindrops can now be obtained from the publisher, and from other commercial outlets.
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A Pushcart nomination
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.
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Walking Between the Raindrops
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!
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Changes & Chances
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.)
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Reading at the Robbins
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!
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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!
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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.
Thomas DeFreitas 