Poetry on Brick Street Presents

Thomas Alan Orr

Thomas Alan Orr’s second volume, Tongue to the Anvil, features poems ranging from the gritty inner city to baseball, rock and roll, and Indiana’s agrarian heritage.

His first book of poems, Hammers in the Fog (Restoration Press), was well-received by readers and critics alike. His poetry has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac and also in Keillor’s anthology, Good Poems, as well as in Growing Season: A Collection of Poems by Midwestern Poets,  In Whatever Houses We May Visit: An Anthology of Poems That Have Inspired Physicians, and In Praise of Fertile Land.   He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2008.