Thomas Centolella



Thomas Centolella is an American poet.

Life
Centolella has published three books of poetry: Terra Firma, Lights & Mysteries and Views from along the Middle Way. His poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Parthenon West Review and Ploughshares,among many other magazines. His poem "View #45", was read at the United Nations as a part of Poets Against the War. "In the evening we shall be examined on love" and "Lines of Force" were featured on Garrison Keillor's Writers' Almanac on NPR. He is a member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.

He has read at the Marin Poetry Center, and the Poetry Festival 2005 at the University of San Francisco. He has been a visiting writer at many universities and colleges.

Mr. Centolella served as a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University; he has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley (Extension) and in the California Poets in the Schools Program.

He currently lives in San Francisco and teaches at College of Marin, and the Institute on Aging in San Francisco.

Recognition

 * 1990 Northern California Book Awards
 * 1990 National Poetry Series (selected by Denise Levertov)
 * 1991 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation
 * 1992 Lannan Literary Awards for Poetry.
 * 1996 Poetry Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California