Thomas Mitchell was raised in New York and California, but has lived in Oregon since 1980. He received his Masters from California State University, Sacramento, where he studied with the poet, Dennis Schmitz. He received an MFA from the University of Montana, where he worked with Richard Hugo and Madeline De Frees. His first collection of poems, The Way Summer Ends, was published by Lost Horse Press in 2016. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The New England Review and New Letters, and are forthcoming in the Valparaiso Poetry Review and Miramar Magazine.

Other poems by Thomas Mitchell in Verse Daily:

Books by Thomas Mitchell:

Other poems on the web by Thomas Mitchell:
"Harvest"
Four poems
"I Used to Fish with My Father"

About Caribou:

"These are poems of careful observation, of a noticing so acute that every detail—'hillsides sizzling with red sumacs,' 'yesterday's dishes / left by the sink,' 'the hard crackling of twigs under feet,' crows 'rehearsing their dark theatrics'—claims its rightful significance in our imaginations. With scenes that open gently in suggestions that are subtle and satisfying, Thomas Mitchell's poems do what the best poems do: they assist our concentration, allowing us to encounter the beauty and relevance of all that is around us."
—Albert Garcia

"These poems praise the natural world, the rocks and hills and plants of the West. They're in love with its animals, insects and birds, fully alive to the moment, yet haunted throughout by a dim nostalgia. I most admire their clear language and close attention, in the tradition of Jim Harrison and Wendell Berry."
—Joseph Millar