Thomas Centolella

Thomas Centolella is an American poet.

Life

Centolella has published three books of poetry: Terra Firma, Lights & Mysteries and Views from along the Middle Way. ^[1] His poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review,^[2] American Poetry Review,^[3] Parthenon West Review and Ploughshares,among many other magazines.^[4] His poem "View #45", was read at the United Nations as a part of Poets Against the War.^[5] "In the evening we shall be examined on love" and "Lines of Force" were featured on Garrison Keillor's Writers' Almanac on NPR. He is a member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.^[6][7]

He has read at the Marin Poetry Center,^[8] and the Poetry Festival 2005 at the University of San Francisco.^[9] He has been a visiting writer at many universities and colleges.

Mr. Centolella served as a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University; he has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley (Extension) and in the California Poets in the Schools Program.^[1]

He currently lives in San Francisco^[1] and teaches at College of Marin,^[10] and the Institute on Aging in San Francisco.

Awards

• 1990 National Poetry Series (selected by Denise Levertov)
• 1991 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation,and Bay Area Book Reviewers Award (aka, Northern California Book Award).
• 1992 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
• 1996 Poetry Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California

Work

Books

• Terra Firma. Copper Canyon Press. 1990. ISBN 978-1-55659-030-6. 
• Lights & Mysteries. Copper Canyon Press. 1995. ISBN 978-1-55659-106-8. 
• Views from along the Middle Way: poems. Copper Canyon Press. 2002. ISBN 978-1-55659-161-7. 

Anthology

• Chad Sweeney, ed. (January 2009). Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds. City Lights Publishers. ISBN 978-1-931404-10-5. 
• Robin Chapman; Judith Strasser, ed. (2007). 75 Poems on Retirement. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-58729-527-0. 
• Justin Daniel Belmont (2005). The Art of Bicycling. Breakaway Books. ISBN 978-1-891369-56-8. 
• devorah major, ed. (2004). The Other Side of the Postcard. City Lights Foundation. ISBN 978-1-931404-06-8. 
• Regina Barreca, ed. (2002). Don't Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing. Tandem Library. ISBN 978-1-4177-0459-0. 
• Maggie Anderson; David Hassler, ed. (1999). Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School. University of Iowa Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-87745-663-6. 

Editor

• Grace Grafton, Thomas Centolella, Calif Lakeshore Alternative Elementary School (2002). I Fall Into the Bright, Bright World: Poems. Manic D Press. 
• Grace Grafton, Thomas Centolella, Calif Lakeshore Alternative Elementary School (2002). The Irresistible Earth: Poems. Manic D Press. 

Poetry

• "The Raptors". Ploughshares. Spring 1995. 
• "The Orders". Ploughshares. Spring 1995. ^[11]
• "View #45", poemhunter

References