I’m on my way home. The clouds in my rearview mirror keep moving over the Cascades, casting long shadows across Three-Fingered-Jack. I’m following their course as they break westward in a line of scattered strokes. I believe in the rising moon, the last light growing dim above overplowed fields, that there is knowledge […]
Thomas Mitchell
Thomas Mitchell was raised in New York and California but has lived in Oregon since 1980. He received his Masters from California State University, Sacramento, where he studied with the poet, Dennis Schmitz. He received an MFA from the University of Montana, where he worked with Richard Hugo and Madeline De Frees. His first collection of poems, The Way Summer Ends, was published in 2016, followed by his second book, Caribou, in 2018. Both are available for purchase at www.losthorsepress.org His new collection, Where We Arrive is scheduled for release in 2021. He is the recipient of the 2020 CLOUDBANK Poetry Award. Thomas Mitchell’s poems have appeared in many journals, including The New England Review, New Letters, Mirimar Magazine, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. American poet, Joseph Millar describes Mitchell’s poems as “fully alive to the moment, yet haunted throughout by a dim nostalgia. I most admire their clear language and close attention, in the tradition of Jim Harrison and Wendell Berry.”