Tom Holmes is the founding editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, and author of four full-length collections of poetry, most recently Material Matters (Kelsay Books, 2020) and The Cave, which won The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award for 2013, as well as four chapbooks. He teaches at Nashville State Community College (Clarksville). His writings about wine, poetry book reviews, and poetry can be found at his blog, The Line Break: thelinebreak.wordpress.com/.

Other poems by Tom Holmes in Verse Daily:
October 23, 2011:   "Music & Story" "The cave has its sound as I have mine..."
February 12, 2011:   "March 22, 2000, at This Stone" "This man who mumbles..."
September 13, 2009:   "While Refuged at Sophie's Cottage as Bombs Fall on London, Nina Hamnett Pens a Postcard to Wyndham Lewis" "Sophie collects new moons..."
April 12, 2009:   "A Corpse of Vortices" "After they kill me..."
August 16, 2008:   "For Her Waking" "Down the canal they arrive..."

Books by Tom Holmes:

Other poems on the web by Tom Holmes:
Two poems
Five poems
"My Mouth (An Apology)"
Three poems
Four poems
"Imagined Scenario 22 of My Birthmother"
"From Eden to Today: The History of Cats and Humans in 14 Lines"
"At L'Estaque"
"Sometimes The Night Arrives Without Design"
Two poems
"Poetry: Andness"

Tom Holmes's Website.

Tom Holmes on Twitter.

About Material Matters:

"Tom Holmes is an impresario of dreams. His images form a compendium at the same time personal and archetypal, incidental and enduring. Pablo Neruda's dictum, 'We are many' is richly borne out in these virtuoso poems, where 'Somewhere in the deepest library, / a copyist begins retranslating / the last straight inch of history'; where 'all treasure maps / are stolen, memorized, and eaten.' What remains, this book proves, is poetry in its spontaneity, magically perpetual."
—Angela Ball

"'Sometimes I draw a boundless world,' a mapmaker asserts in Tom Holmes's Material Matters, a notable new collection of poems seeped in the materiality of maps and books and letters, of vellum and ink, of copyists and cartographers and compass chickens. The fascinating boundless world of this collection encompasses the wind and stars and god and meditates on the everyday sustenance of pen and bread. Like the cartographer, who 'believed in grounding observation,' Holmes charts the world through particulars, using a sure hand to build to a stunning long poem that maps both love and loss."
—Rebecca Morgan Frank

"Set aside the old admonition that 'the map is not the territory,' this is. From the unique vantage of a mapmaker floating godlike above his subject, cartography creates the world, as true for the earliest charts on vellum as for the intimate topographies of these smart and informed poems. Tom Holmes is a cartographer of authentic imagination, of history and deep longing, Pangea to Beatrice, Archimedes to Mississippi."
—Allan Peterson