Tom Daley
In addition to his post at the Online School
of Poetry, Tom Daley tutors beginning and
experienced poets in person and by correspondence
and teaches poetry writing at the Boston Center
for Adult Education in Boston, Massachusetts
and poetry and memoir writing at Lexington
(MA) Community Education. He has been a guest
instructor in ekphrastic writing at Brown
University and in poetry writing and performance
at Stonehill College. Tom led last fall’s
poetry writing workshops and classes at the
Writers In the Round annual retreat for songwriters
and poets on Star Island (Rye, New Hampshire)
and a workshop in the creative process at
the Nantucket Athenaeum. Tom has recently
served as visiting poet at several private
schools including Atlanta Girls' School, Carolina
Day School and Asheville School (Asheville,
NC).
Tom Daley’s poetry is forthcoming or has been
published in numerous journals, including
Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, Diagram,
32 Poems, Salamander, Archipelago, Perihelion,
Poetry Ireland Review, Asheville Poetry Review,
Passages North and Hacks: The Grub Street
Anthology. His manuscript, Shim, was a semi-finalist
for the 2004 Bakeless Prize and a finalist
for the 2005 Emily Dickinson First Book Prize
offered by The Poetry Foundation. He graduated
with highest honors in Creative Writing from
the University of North Carolina, where he
won the Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Academy
of American Poets Prize.
Testimonials: Internationally claimed performance
poet and Online School of Poetry instructor
Regie Gibson has written about Tom Daley:“His
panoramic scope is elegantly matched with
a sensitive attention to nuance. Whether behind
the camera of the pen, Daley’s images
leave us with a sense of beauty in things
mundane, and of life emerging from a decaying
world.”
Here is a testimonial from a participant in
a recent workshop led by Tom Daley:
"The workshop has gotten me back on track
with writing poetry and given me new confidence.
Your assignments have been so interesting
and provocative that they've put me back in
the zone where I don't question the value
of writing, but just relish doing it and long
for more time to do it. The background material
and examples are incredibly useful and helped
to tune up my ear. I was moved by getting
[poems picked out for each participant from
established writers] each time. That you would
put in this effort made me feel worthy, and
sent me reading those poems to look for connections
to my own writing. That was a real gift from
you. Your own critiques are thoughtful and
often bring up points that others don't see
or raise. You focus a lot on the language.
It's by far the best workshop I've had. I
appreciate the great effort you put into it."
