National Poetry Series
1 appearances
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Edition 11 (1989) Winner
Thomas Centolella
トーマス・センテロッラ
Thomas Centolella
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- San Francisco, California, USA
Career
- Occupations
- poet, educator
- Active Years
- 1990-
- Affiliations
- San Francisco State University (instructor), University of California, Berkeley (Extension), College of Marin (instructor), WritersCorps (San Francisco), California Poets in the Schools Program
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | National Poetry Series | Terra Firma | — | National Poetry Series | 受賞 |
| 1991 | American Book Award | Terra Firma | — | Before Columbus Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1991 | Bay Area Book Reviewers Award (Northern California Book Award) | Terra Firma | — | Bay Area Book Reviewers | 受賞 |
| 1992 | Lannan Literary Award for Poetry | — | — | Lannan Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1996 | Poetry Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California (California Book Award) | — | — | Commonwealth Club of California | 受賞 |
| 2015 | The Dorset Prize | Almost Human | — | Tupelo Press | 受賞 |
| 2019 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
National Poetry Series
1990
Work:
Terra Firma
Organization:
National Poetry Series
Result:
受賞
American Book Award
1991
Work:
Terra Firma
Organization:
Before Columbus Foundation
Result:
受賞
Bay Area Book Reviewers Award (Northern California Book Award)
1991
Work:
Terra Firma
Organization:
Bay Area Book Reviewers
Result:
受賞
Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
1992
Organization:
Lannan Foundation
Result:
受賞
Poetry Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California (California Book Award)
1996
Organization:
Commonwealth Club of California
Result:
受賞
The Dorset Prize
2015
Work:
Almost Human
Organization:
Tupelo Press
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
2019
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
American Book Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 12 (1991) Winner
Lannan Literary Awards
3 appearances
Works
Major Works
Terra Firma
1990 poetryEarly collection of poems grounded in everyday observation and personal experience.
everyday lifeidentityplace
Lights & Mysteries
1995 poetryA collection exploring the resonance of language and subtle movements of consciousness.
languageperceptionemotion
Views from along the Middle Way
2002 poetryPoems that question everyday ethics and relationships from a middle-way perspective.
ethicsrelationshipsthe middle way
Almost Human
2017 poetryWinner of the 2015 Dorset Prize; a delicate exploration of humanity and its margins.
humanitylonelinessobservation
Bibliography
- Terra Firma
- Lights & Mysteries
- Views from along the Middle Way
- Almost Human
- Editor: I Fall Into the Bright, Bright World: Poems (co-editor)
- Editor: The Irresistible Earth: Poems (co-editor)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- clear, emotionally resonant stylegrounded in everyday observationattentive to the sound and rhythm of language
- Recurring Motifs
- everyday scenesfamily and relationshipsreflections on existence and ethics
Legacy
As a San Francisco–based poet and educator, he has won multiple literary awards and contributed to the Bay Area poetry community. His poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, and his teaching has influenced emerging poets.
Archives
- Poetry Foundation - author page
Trivia
- 'View #45' was read at the United Nations as part of Poets Against the War.
- He served as a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
- He won the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press) in 2015 and published 'Almost Human' in 2017.
- He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.