O:JA&L’s 2025 Pamphlet Series
HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies
Poetry: All forms & styles
A Writer’s Portfolio
Larry D. Thomas
MUSING THE CROSSROADS
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About the writer:
LARRY D. THOMAS, a previous Buttonhook Press author of a poetry chapbook and two poetry pamphlets, served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate and is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. He has published twenty-four print collections of poetry and numerous poetry chapbooks, both in print and online. A third-generation Texan who currently resides in the Chihuahuan Desert of southwestern New Mexico, Thomas is generally known as a Southwestern poet but has focused his literary efforts during the past eight years on writing and publishing poetry inspired by the Mississippi River Delta. Of deep Southern heritage (his grandparents and his parents, into their late twenties, worked as sharecroppers until his father obtained employment at a Mobil service station), he has published a large number of poems in national Southern literary journals, including the Arkansas Review, Valley Voices, Delta Poetry Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, and Red Dirt Forum.
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