Tom Holmes

Tom Holmes is the editor of Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose. He is also author of: The Cave, which won The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award for 2013 and will be released in 2014; Poems for an Empty Church (Palettes & Quills Press, 2011); The Oldest Stone in the World (Amsterdam Press, 2011); Henri, Sophie, & the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound: Poems Blasted from the Vortex (BlazeVOX Books, 2009); Pre-Dew Poems (FootHills Publishing, 2008); Negative Time (Pudding House, 2007); After Malagueña (FootHills Publishing, 2005); and editor of Poetry Assignments: The Book (Sage Hill Press, forthcoming). He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize seven times and once for the Pulitzer Prize. His current prose writing efforts about wine, poetry book reviews, and poetry can be found at his blog, The Line Break.

He is currently working on a PhD in English (emphasis Poetry) at The Univeristy of Southern Mississippi.