Tom Holmes

Tom Holmes (class of ’04) is the editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. He is also author of: The Cave, which won The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award for 2013; 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); and After Malagueña (FootHills Publishing, 2005).

He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize seven times, Best of the Net twice, and has appeared a number of times on Verse Daily. As of September 2, 2016, he had accumulated 1058 rejection letters from journals and book publishers. In spring 2016, he earned a PhD in English with Creative Writing emphasis from the University of Southern Mississippi. His current prose writing efforts about wine, poetry book reviews, poetry, and sometimes football can be found at his blog, The Line Break. You can follow him on Twitter at: @TheLineBreak and check out his Poets & Writers page. Read some of Tom’s work and interviews: “My Mouth (an Apology)” Rattle One Badass Poet: An Interview with Tom Holmes.