Biography
MARC THOMAS
Marc Thomas lives with his wife, Margo, in an artfully painted house on Savannah's south side. He collects books (and reads many of them).
Books and words are central to Marc's life. He has been a librarian, a historical society archivist, and a federal employee constantly involved in the group production of a variety of written works — and anyone who thinks that government correspondence, contracts, budgets, data and economic analyses, meeting reports, regulations, procedure manuals, white papers, congressional testimony, contingency plans, and risk assessments are the graveyard of creativity and originality just has not been paying attention.
During the COVID lock down, I rediscovered the box of poems that had been accumulating since early in my life, and compiled my first book of poetry, SURVIVING FRAGMENTS, which was published in early 2024. I began to write new poems again, and published my second book of poetry, TALKING TO THE MACHINES AND OTHER POEMS, in October 2024.
Currently, Marc is active in four book clubs, coordinating two of them, regularly takes courses at The Learning Center in Savannah, and co-leads The Learning Center's Reading Forum, which is a long term long form group reading experience that takes on those classics that you have been meaning to read, but did not get to yet (and the occasional new book).
Marc believes that poetry should be heard as well as seen, and is a regular at poetry open mics in Savannah. See the events page for a listing.
Marc's first book of poetry, Surviving Fragments, was published in February 2024. He originally planned to continue recovering old poems and produce a second volume (tentatively titled Recovered Fragments), but the tasks to clean and sort and patch and mend have proved more difficult than to pen new poems. He is still working to recover what is recoverable.
Marc's second book of poetry, Talking to the Machines and Other Poems, was published in October 2024. This book of new poems deals with artificial intelligence, COVID, language, identity, epiphanies from the natural world, and reading James Joyce.