MORE ABOUT TOM
My work as a
coach is inevitably informed by my life as a poet, essayist, performer, and
educator. As a student of literature, I earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University, and the study of narrative informs the creative scope of the programs I design for my clients. I am the author ofAftermath (2018),
a poetry collection that poet Joan Larkin selected for The Word Works Hilary
Tham Capital Collection. Since 2018, I
have been the host and curator of Poetry/Cabaret,
a bi-monthly “variety salon” performance series in New York City that brings
together poets, comedians, and cabaret performers to share their responses to a
common theme. Broadway World has
called Poetry/Cabaret “a daring, edgy, and divinely
human way of looking at art and artists.” With painter
Valerie Mendelson, I am the co-creator of A Good Mixer, a text and
visual hybrid project that imagines a virtual cocktail party in the form of
paintings of people’s cocktails and poems representing the thoughts and desires
of their drinkers. In
recent years, I have written and performed my “tragi-comic” monologues at a
number of venues in New York City, including Ars Nova, The Duplex, Joe’s Pub,
The Peoples Improv Theater, and Sid Gold’s Request Room. With PEN America’s Prison Writing Program, I have served as a
judge for the Prison Writing Contest’s poetry panel and for the inaugural
L’Engle-Rahman Award for Mentorship. A past recipient of the Norma Millay Ellis
Fellowship in Poetry, from Millay Arts, I also received an Artist/Writer grant
from The Vermont Studio Center. For over 25 years, I have lived in New
York City, where I teach at The Brearley School and in Barnard College’s
Pre-College Program.
You can learn more about my creative work here.
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You can learn more about my creative work here.
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