Saturday June 7, 2025 BookTree Free Writing Workshop PIE Reading and Open Mic with Thomas A. Thomas and Cindy Veach.
Workshop @ 4:24 Writing in and through Grief. Thomas will bring prompts and examples for discussion, to stimulate ways that participants may approach writing about grief in its various phases and forms. There will be time for free-writing and sharing work, with the sharing being completely optional. Participants should bring writing or drawing implements, and a notebook or pad. Losses of parents, spouse, family, pets, property, financial security, personal rights and more are all fair game. Past losses and impending losses, or even just the fear of any of these coming to pass are also to be considered
PIE Reading and Open Mic (PoetryIsEverything) @ 6:15 PM featuring Thomas A. Thomas and Cindy Veach plus YOU on the open Mic.
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Thomas A. Thomas, poet & photographer, was born in Illinois, but has gratefully made his home in the Pacific Northwest for more than 43 years. His newest poetry collection, “My Heart Is Not Asleep” from MoonPath Press, was published June 1st, 2024. Great thanks are made to Cultivating Voices Live Poetry, and to the University of Michigan, where Thomas had an auspicious beginning with Donald Hall and Gregory Orr.
His poetry, photographs and videos appear online and in print, most recently in MacQueen’s Quinterly and Verse Daily. His work may also be found in Gyroscope Review, Cirque Journal, Blue Heron Review, Vox Populi Sphere, The Banyan Review.org & FemAsia Magazine.com, as well as anthologies in English and Serbian and in translation to Spanish, Serbian, and Bengali.
In addition to Pushcart Prize nominations in 2022 and 2024, Thomas has been nominated for the Best Spiritual Literature Awards in 2025.
Cindy Veach is the author of three poetry collections: Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press); Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) an Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist; and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press) a Paterson Poetry Prize finalist and Massachusetts Center for the Book “Must Read.” Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Philip Booth Prize and Samuel Allen Washington Prize. Cindy is co-poetry editor of MER.