Kirk Thomas Poetry Reading

Description

Sylva poet, Kirk Thomas will read from his new poetry collection on Saturday, May 23rd at 6:30 p.m. at City Lights Bookstore. Miscellaneous Musings and Other Odd Thoughts: The Desert Poems are poems inspired by his time in the Saudi Arabian desert when he worked as a military contractor. Before that, Thomas had served for many years in the U.S. Army Special Forces. He and is wife moved to a house between Sylva and Franklin in 2011. In addition to his poetry, he has written a number of essays and prose pieces and has, on occasion, rendered some of them into verse. These days he spends his time reading, writing, splitting firewood, and sitting out on his front porch with a glass of wine listening to the creek run by. To reserve copies of Miscellaneous Musings and Other Odd Thoughts please call City Lights Bookstore at 828-586-9499.