may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Thom's CV

AS VENUEMEISTER

Current host of monthly reading EXPRESSIONS(7 years)

Current host of POETRY ACOUSTICA Tuesdays(3 years)

Current host of CAFFEINATED POETRY Wednesdays(6 months)


AS POETRY INITIATOR

Co-founder AUSTIN INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL

Co-founder AUSTIN POETS AT LARGE

Founder of POETRY KARAOKE


AS SUPPORT ACT

RUSSELL CROWE(Austin,Texas-5 shows)

ROY HARPUR(Cleveland ,Ohio)

HARVEY BAINBRIDGE,NIK TURNER(Strangedaze Festival)


AS IMPROVISOR

Collaborations with GLOSSO BABEL

TERATOMA,INVISIBLE OPERA COMPANY OF TIBET,

KANGAROO MOON,MOTHER GONG,DAEVID ALLEN


AS PUBLISHER

152 books of original poetry

45 cassettes

19 CDs

2 CD books


THOM WORLD POET is an original improvisor of contemporary freeform poetry /delighting in poems of the moment /working with musicians open to flow.