Thomas Centolella

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Thomas Centolella
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Occupationpoet and educator
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
Genrepoetry
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship, The Dorset Prize, Lannan Literary Award for Poetry

Thomas Centolella is an American poet and educator. He has published four books of poetry and has had many poems published in periodicals including American Poetry Review. He has received awards for his poetry including those from the National Poetry Series, the American Book Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and the Dorset Prize. In 2019, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. [1]

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Thomas Centolella

Life

Centolella has published four books of poetry: Terra Firma, Lights & Mysteries, Views from along the Middle Way, and Almost Human. [2] His poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, [3] American Poetry Review, [4] Parthenon West Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, and The Los Angeles Times, among many other periodicals. [5] His poem "View #45", was read at the United Nations as a part of Poets Against the War. [6] "In the evening we shall be examined on love" and "Lines of Force" were featured on Garrison Keillor's Writers' Almanac on NPR. [7] [8]

He has been a visiting writer at many universities and colleges.

Mr. Centolella served as a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He has taught literature and creative writing at San Francisco State University, at the University of California, Berkeley (Extension), at the Institute on Aging (San Francisco), at San Francisco WritersCorps, and in the California Poets in the Schools Program. [2]

He currently lives in San Francisco [2] and teaches at College of Marin and in private workshops.

Awards

Work

Books

Anthologies

Editor

Poetry

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References

  1. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Thomas Centolella" . Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  2. 1 2 3 Thomas Centolella. "Terra Firma by Thomas Centolella - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
  3. "Spring & Summer 1996". Uaa.alaska.edu. 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
  4. Archived January 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Parthenon West Review ~ Poetry is Our Nation". Parthenonwestreview.com. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
  6. Archived December 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  7. "DC Writers and Magazines at AWP in Chicago - 32 Poems Magazine". Blog.32poems.com. 2009-02-10. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
  8. "WritersCorps » Teaching Arts". Sfartscommission.org. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
  9. "author detail". Pshares.org. 2010-07-08. Retrieved 2013-10-06.