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About Z.G. Tomaszewski

Z.G. Tomaszewski, born in 1989 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the author of three books of poems: All Things Dusk, an International Poetry Prize winner selected by Li-Young Lee, (Hong Kong University Press, 2015); a chapbook written while living in Ireland, Mineral Whisper (Finishing Line Press, 2017); and River Nocturne (forthcoming), which has already seen praise from David James Duncan, Li-Young Lee, Laura Kasischke, and Dan Gerber.

Tomaszewski currently works maintenance at a 100-year-old Masonic Temple and is co-director of the Lamp Light Music Festival as well as co-founder of Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters, now Write616. zgtomaszewski.wordpress.com.

Homing In: Our Sudden Museum by Robert Fanning, reviewed by Z.G. Tomaszewski

Z.G. Tomaszewski

Our Sudden Museum - Robert Fanning

Our Sudden Museum by Robert Fanning / Salmon Poetry / 2017 / 978-1-910669-67-9 / 82 pages In Our Sudden Museum, poet Robert Fanning is no stranger to tragedy. As readers of this collection, we become witness to a landscape deepened with heart-felt … [Read more...]

Giving the Stars Their Right Names: Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith, reviewed

Z.G. Tomaszewski

Don't Call Us Dead - Danez Smith

Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith / Graywolf Press / 96 pages / 978-1555977856 / September 5, 2017 Not all poems are written and speak out in defense of something, not many books reach up and over their own identity to inhabit others, “learning to … [Read more...]

Three Dream Poems by Z.G. Tomaszewski

Z.G. Tomaszewski

eleven / image: em

Scouting I. Wine bottles roll bow to stern, clank and jumble, a tide inside the vessel, forward and back— I weigh these words, almost as if a god spoke them against the volume of our history: the body, its language, a mythology of self. I … [Read more...]

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