Author

Larry D. Thomas, a longtime contributor to Right Hand Pointing, is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and was privileged to serve as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate.  He has published eighteen collections of poetry, most recently Far (West Texas) (Right Hand Pointing 2011) and A Murder of Crows (Virtual Artists Collective 2011).  Among the numerous prizes and awards his poetry has received are two Texas Review Poetry Prizes (2001 and 2004), the 2004 Violet Crown Award (Writers’ League of Texas), the 2003 Western Heritage Award (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum), a Poets’ Prize nomination (West Chester University/Nicholas Roerich Museum), four Pushcart Prize nominations, a “Best of the Net” nomination, and six Spur Award Finalist citations (Western Writers of America).  His Larry D. Thomas: New and Selected Poems (TCU Press 2008) was long-listed for the National Book Award.

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