Thomas Reiter

Thomas Reiter has published five full-length books of poetry, the most recent being Catchment, LSU Press, 2009. He has been awarded the Daily News Poetry Prize from The Caribbean Writer and the Boatwright Poetry Prize from Shenandoah. He is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Monmouth University, where he held the Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities.

THE AIR’S ACCOMPLICES (LSU, 2015) by Brendan Galvin

  In Biophilia, his grand work on the stewardship of environment, Edward O. Wilson has famously said, “Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of … Continue reading

Everlasting

Dry October, the shallows move across briary ground so lightly, slowly, there are cloud flowers on the bedrock. On the stream bank, lichen the color of litmus leafs out on stones, and in that tough company here’s the pearly everlasting, … Continue reading