Belfast Poet Tom Moore unleashes new book!
Mon, May 06
|Local Color Gallery
Thomas Moore will launch his sixth book of poetry, Unleashed (Moon Pie Press) at the Local Color Gallery in Belfast. A four-times Pushcart nominee, Thomas R. Moore won a Pushcart Prize in 2018 with “How We Built Our House.”
Time & Location
May 06, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Local Color Gallery, 135 High St, Belfast, ME 04915, USA
About the event
Thomas R. Moore will launch his sixth book of poetry, Unleashed (Moon Pie Press), on Sunday, May 5, from 4-6 pm, at the Local Color Gallery in Belfast. He will be joined by former Belfast poets laureate Ellen Sander and Judy Kaber, and his wife Leslie Moore, printmaker, poet, and member of Local Color Gallery, for a reading at 4:30 PM. The cover of Moore’s new book features a painting by Sheep Jones, a yearly guest artist at the gallery.
“In Unleashed, Thomas Moore navigates the intersection where memory and imagination converge,” writes Ellen Sander. “It is a liminal space, one which this extraordinary collection occupies with quiet, particular, and eloquent glee…. There are salty meditations on aging and a juicy application of darkish wit. Moore is a master of the spare, vivid stanza and Unleashed abounds with droll and meticulous craft.”
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