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Bio

(1944-2005) Poet. Lorenzo Thomas was born in the Republic of Panama. His family moved to New York City in 1948.

Full Name

Lorenzo Thomas

Locations

Queens

Author's Timeline


1944

BIRTH

Lorenzo Thomas was born in the Republic of Panama in 1944.

1967

OTHER

Thomas graduated from Queens College in Queens, New York, in 1967.

1967

OTHER

Thomas did graduate study and was an assistant reference librarian at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, from 1967 until 1968.

1967

LITWORK

A Visible Island
New York, NY: Adlib Press.

Collection of poetry.

1972

LITWORK

Fit Music: California Songs
New York, New York: Angel Hair Books.

Collection of poetry.

1973

LITWORK

Dracula
New York, NY: Angel Hair Books.

Collection of poetry.

1975

LITWORK

Framing The Sunrise
Sun Be/Am Associates.

Collection of poetry.

1979

LITWORK

Chances Are Few
Berkeley, CA: Chances Are Few

Collection of poetry (1st edition).

1981

LITWORK

The Bathers: Selected Poems
Berkeley, CA: Reed, Cannon & Johnson.

Collection of poetry.

2000

LITWORK

Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism And 20th-Century American Poetry
Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.

Nonfiction.

2003

LITWORK

Chances Are Few

0-912652-77-2.
Collection of poetry (expanded 2nd edition).

2004

LITWORK

Dancing On Main Street


Collection of poetry.

2005

DEATH

Lorenzo Thomas died in Houston, Texas, in 2005.

2008

LITWORK

Don't Deny My Name
University of Michigan Press.
9780472098927
Collection of essays.

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