Gail Thomas' books are Trail of Roots, Leaving Paradise, Odd Mercy, Waving Back, No Simple Wilderness, and Finding the Bear. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies including CALYX, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, Cumberland River Review, and Mezzo Cammin. Among her awards are the Seven Kitchens Press award for Trail of Roots, the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press for Odd Mercy, the Narrative Poetry Prize from Naugatuck River Review, the Massachusetts Center for the Book's "Must Read" for Waving Back, and the Quartet Review's Editor's Choice Prize. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and Ucross, and several poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She teaches poetry with Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshops, visits schools and libraries with her therapy dog Sunny, and works with immigrant and refugee communities in Western Massachusetts.

Other poems by Gail Thomas in Verse Daily:
September 14, 2023:   "Aubade Between Seasons" "Suddenly the hummingbirds battling..."

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Other poems on the web by Gail Thomas:
Three poems
"Forgiveness, I am still working on it"
"The Revenant"
"Marriage at 63"
"Panacea"
Four poems
Three poems
Four poems Gail Thomas's Website.