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 is a member of
the tutorial faculty of Walnut Hill School
for the Arts (Elizabeth Bishop’s alma
mater).
He has been a guest instructor in ekphrastic
writing at Brown University and in poetry
writing and performance at Stonehill College
and SUNY Cobleskill. Tom has led poetry writing
workshops and classes at the Writers In the
Round annual retreat for songwriters and poets
on Star Island (Rye, New Hampshire) and workshops
in the creative process at the Nantucket Atheneum.
Tom Daley’s poetry is forthcoming or
has been published in numerous journals, including
Harvard Review, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner,
Vox, Diagram, 32 Poems, Archipelago, Perihelion,
Poetry Ireland Review, Southern Humanities
Review 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."
