Poetry Reading by Jeff Thomson

 Jeff Thomson’s fourth book of poems, Birdwatching in Wartime, wanders the globe but settles in the rainforests of Peru and Costa Rica. Maine poet laureate Betsy Scholl calls the results “lush and amazing.” Currently, thomson leads an annual trip of students to study (and write about) Costa Rica’s rainforests. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Arts Commission, and the Maine Arts Commission and has most recently published poetry and nonfiction in Quarterly West, Isotope, Indiana Review, Sycamore Review, Brilliant Corners, Gulf Coast, and Willow Springs, as well as critical essays on Sandra Cisneros, James Wright, Derek Walcott, and the environmental elegy. He is an associate professor at the University of Maine-Farmington. R