Thom Donovan is a poet, essayist, editor, curator, and archivist. He has a PhD from SUNY Buffalo. His books include The Hole (Displaced Press, 2012), Withdrawn (Compline, fall 2016), and Withdrawn: a Discourse (Shifter, fall 2016). He is the co-editor and publisher of ON Contemporary Practice, and recently edited Occupy Poetics (Essay Press, 2015), Supple Science: a Robert Kocik Primer (with Michael Cross), and To Look At The Sea Is To Become What One Is: An Etel Adnan Reader (with Brandon Shimoda). Since 2006 he has edited the weblog Wild Horses of Fire. From 2011-2013 he was the Archive Manager of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation. He has taught at numerous institutions including Parsons, Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Wesleyan University, and Bard College.
He will be teaching Advanced Poetry in the fall semester.