Author: Truth Thomas

Truth Thomas is a singer-songwriter and poet, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, raised in Washington, DC. He is the author of three collections of poetry, Party of Black (Flipped Eye/Mouthmark Press, 2006), A Day of Presence (Flipped Eye Publications, 2008), and Bottle of Life (Flipped Eye Publishing, 2010). His fourth book, Speak Water, is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2011. He serves on the editorial boards of both the Tidal Basin Review, and Little Patuxent Review. Some of his work has appeared in: African Voices, Alehouse, Callaloo, The Emerson Review, Mythium Literary Journal, The Newtowner, OVS Magazine, Pluck!, The Progressive, Quiddity Literary Journal, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology), and The 100 Best African American Poems (edited by Nikki Giovanni).

by Truth Thomas

Writing Past Taboo: The Truth Thomas Poetry Workshop

In the Twenty-First Century, the rate of black unemployment is double that of whites in America, and a new Jim Crow exists where there are more black men in jail than were enslaved before the Civil War. Poems that address that pain are no less legitimate than poems about flowers. In the context of creative writing, everyone has something […]