Name: Truth
Bio: Truth Thomas is a singer, songwriter, and poet, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, raised in Washington, DC. He studied creative writing and music at Howard University, before earning his MFA in Poetry at New England College. He is formally writer-in-residence for the Howard County Poetry and Literary Society in Maryland. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Party of Black (Flipped Eye/Mouthmark Press, 2006), A Day of Presence (Flipped Eye Publishing, 2008), and Bottle of Life (Flipped Eye Publishing, 2010). His fourth book, Speak Water, is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2011. He serves on editorial boards of both the Tidal Basin Review, and the Little Patuxent Review. Some of his work has appeared in: Mythium Literary Journal, OVS Magazine, Pluck!, The Progressive, Quiddity Literary Journal, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology), and The 100 Best African American Poems (edited by Nikki Giovanni).
Posts by Truth:
Truth Thomas – New pub in Blue Lotus Review
May 11th, 2011
Photo by Josue Cedeno
Intersections
Truth Thomas
(for Melani N. Douglas, Rachel Eliza Griffiths and Fred Joiner)
At the American Poetry Museum
on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue
Southeast, on a snow plow rumbling
night, art wanders in off the street
to hold its own hand, like a dazed
tornado survivor, and looks around
as if in search of missing kin who
never made it to the storm cellar.
Pictures and poets greet it at the door…
For full poem, click on link below.
Blue Lotus Review
http://www.bluelotusreview.com/truth_thomas.html
Bottle of Life – The People’s Book Prize
May 11th, 2011Current Haps- Bottle of Life – Truth Thomas & The People’s Book Prize
Truth Thomas – photo by Melanie Henderson
The People’s Book Prize
http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/book.php?id=573
Review
Truth Thomas’ Bottle of Life makes us face up to the gun barrel pointed at our head on Bodymore’s mean streets, yet an ocean away,poems like “Holy War” make us try to figure who is really the holy one–the dead Palestinian or dead Israeli lost to violence. The literary canon is referenced in this collection, and equated to a cabbie, driving by as if blinded by the color of a black man’s skin. Also, there are love poems to lesbians in this book, being appreciated from head to toe as a real people. Bottle of Life is worth imbibing for it is life blood–so fragile and precious. It is the poetic draught that keeps us running, and Truth Thomas knows that well. –Mike Clark, Little Patuxent Review
flipped eye publishing bookstore
http://www.flippedeye.net/store/product_info.php?products_id=75&osCsid=2d23gmc74rmn5ofho8ff6huaf6
