Thomas Centolella
{{Short description|American poet and educator|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Thomas Centolella is an American poet and educator. He has published four books of poetry and has had many poems published in periodicals including American Poetry Review. He has received awards for his poetry including those from the National Poetry Series, the American Book Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and the Dorset Prize. In 2019, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Thomas Centolella|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/thomas-centolella/|access-date=2020-09-09|language=en-US}}
Life
Centolella has published four books of poetry: Terra Firma, Lights & Mysteries, Views from along the Middle Way, and Almost Human.{{cite web|author=Thomas Centolella |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1458112.Terra_Firma |title=Terra Firma by Thomas Centolella - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists |publisher=Goodreads.com |date= |accessdate=2013-10-06}} His poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review,{{cite web|url=http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/back-issues/14_3and4.cfm |title=Spring & Summer 1996 |publisher=Uaa.alaska.edu |date=2012-04-03 |accessdate=2013-10-06}} American Poetry Review,[http://www.aprweb.org/shopsite/page8.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101074209/http://www.aprweb.org/shopsite/page8.html |date=January 1, 2009 }} Parthenon West Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, and The Los Angeles Times, among many other periodicals.{{cite web|url=http://www.parthenonwestreview.com/ |title=Parthenon West Review ~ Poetry is Our Nation |publisher=Parthenonwestreview.com |date= |accessdate=2013-10-06}} His poem "View #45", was read at the United Nations as a part of Poets Against the War.[http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/NNPTreaty.asp ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205131354/http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/NNPTreaty.asp |date=December 5, 2008 }} "In the evening we shall be examined on love" and "Lines of Force" were featured on Garrison Keillor's Writers' Almanac on NPR.{{cite web|url=http://blog.32poems.com/934/dc-writers-and-magazines-at-awp-in-chicago/ |title=DC Writers and Magazines at AWP in Chicago - 32 Poems Magazine |publisher=Blog.32poems.com |date=2009-02-10 |accessdate=2013-10-06}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sfartscommission.org/WC/category/blog/teaching-arts/ |title=WritersCorps » Teaching Arts |publisher=Sfartscommission.org |date= |accessdate=2013-10-06}}
He has been a visiting writer at many universities and colleges.
Mr. Centolella served as a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He has taught literature and creative writing at San Francisco State University, at the University of California, Berkeley (Extension), at the Institute on Aging (San Francisco), at San Francisco WritersCorps, and in the California Poets in the Schools Program.
He currently lives in San Francisco and teaches at College of Marin and in private workshops.
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 (aka California Book Award).
- 2015 The Dorset Prize, (selected by Edward Hirsch), Tupelo Press.
- 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship
Work
=Books=
- {{cite book| title=Terra Firma| publisher=Copper Canyon Press| year=1990| isbn=978-1-55659-030-6| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/terrafirmapoems00cent}}
- {{cite book| title=Lights & Mysteries| publisher=Copper Canyon Press| year=1995| isbn=978-1-55659-106-8| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/lightsmysteries00cent}}
- {{cite book| title=Views from along the Middle Way: poems| publisher=Copper Canyon Press| year=2002| isbn=978-1-55659-161-7 }}
- Almost Human. Tupelo Press, 2017.
=Anthologies=
- America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience, Sixteen Rivers Press (2018)
- The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed, Sixteen Rivers Press (2010)
- {{cite book| title=Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds | editor=Chad Sweeney | editor-link=Chad Sweeney | publisher=City Lights Publishers | isbn=978-1-931404-10-5| date=January 2009 }}
- {{cite book| title=75 Poems on Retirement| editor1=Robin Chapman| editor2=Judith Strasser| publisher=University of Iowa Press| year=2007| isbn=978-1-58729-527-0| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/onretirement75po0000unse}}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XcFW1DR31mQC&q=Thomas+Centolella&pg=PA331| title=The Art of Bicycling | author=Justin Daniel Belmont| publisher=Breakaway Books| year=2005 | isbn=978-1-891369-56-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Other Side of the Postcard| editor=devorah major| publisher=City Lights Foundation| year=2004| isbn=978-1-931404-06-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=Don't Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing| editor=Regina Barreca| publisher=Tandem Library| year=2002| isbn=978-1-4177-0459-0 }}
- {{cite book| title=Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School|editor1=Maggie Anderson |editor2=David Hassler | publisher=University of Iowa Press| year=1999| isbn=978-0-87745-663-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUPh2C8hzk4C| page=58}}
=Editor=
- {{cite book| title=I Fall Into the Bright, Bright World: Poems| publisher=Manic D Press| year=2002| author=Grace Grafton, Thomas Centolella, Calif Lakeshore Alternative Elementary School }}
- {{cite book| title=The Irresistible Earth: Poems| author=Grace Grafton, Thomas Centolella, Calif Lakeshore Alternative Elementary School |publisher=Manic D Press| year=2002 }}
=Poetry=
- {{cite journal| title=The Raptors | journal=Ploughshares| date=Spring 1995}}
- {{cite journal| title=The Orders | journal=Ploughshares| date=Spring 1995}}{{cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/read/author-detail.cfm?intAuthorID=252 |title=author detail |publisher=Pshares.org |date=2010-07-08 |accessdate=2013-10-06}}
- [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/view-45/ "View #45", poemhunter]
- "The Secret Life," Poetry Northwest, [http://www.poetrynw.org/thomas-centolella-secret-life/]
- 10 poems, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas-centolella
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