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My name is Rudy Thomas. I am the Director of the Lindsey Wilson College Upward Bound project. I write & publish. My work has appeared in: Appalachian Heritage; Mountain Review; Railroad Earth; Wind; Appalachian Journal; Pegasus; handsel; Back Home in Kentucky; Cumberlands; Kentucky Poetry Review; River City Review; The Laurel Review; Tributaries; Help Yourself; Scripsit; and other places.

My work appears in the following anthologies: God's Plenty--Modern Kentucky Writers, edited by Lillie D. Chaffin, Glenn O. Carey, and Harry N. Brown; Going Over to Your Place, edited by Paul B. Janeczko; 100 Years of Appalachian Visions, Bill Best, editor; Old Wounds, New Words, edited by Bob Henry Baber, George Ella Lyon and Gurney Norman; Appalachia Inside Out--A Sequel to Voices from the Hills, edited by Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller.

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  • Last seen on Oct 3 10:25 AM. Member since November 21, 2001.
  • I'm a midnight moon poet for 6127 comments.
  • I am a guy from Kentucky (United States)
  • When I'm not writing, I'm a Poet/Educator.
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My Poetry

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  • Chapter Two
    The man is alone.
    The man answers the phone.
    54 lines, 4 comments, August 1
  • The Novel
    Chapter 1 begins with a woman on a bed in dim light,
    30 lines, 6 comments, July 16
  • When you return
    I will not ask you why
    you went away.
    18 lines, 2 comments, June 30
  • Blue Heron's Soliloquy
    Here I stand in water,
    listening to the voice
    26 lines, 8 comments, June 24

Visitor Book

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  • Simply Bohemian : Thank you on March 3, 2007
    thank you for reading my Not a poem
    I would give you stars if I knew how to or where even to find them...(twenty years of schooling and I am at a lost here to even add on stars!)
    Once again thank you for even looking at my No poem stuff.
  • mtpoet on November 15, 2006
    Your words kept me reading...
  • zara on November 15, 2006
    Thank you for your recent visits to my pages. I'm honoured.

  • mona on November 8, 2006
    Rudy I want to translate one of your poems

    with your name to put in an Arabic site of poetry do ya mind ?

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