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Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler is poet laureate of Rhode Island emeritus. He has been named Phi Beta Kappa Poet at Brown University and has been a featured poet at the Robert Frost homestead. His poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio on several occasions. His newest book of poems is Toy Firing Squad. (Source)

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Poems by Tom Chandler

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Six Billion People by Tom Chandler

November 30, 2008
“And all of you so beautiful / I want to bring you home with me to sit close on the couch.” — Tom Chandler
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Ten Degrees by Tom Chandler

November 26, 2005
"how beautiful / this world too cold to criticize itself;" — Tom Chandler
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To the woman at the Red Edge Motel by Tom Chandler

November 25, 2005
"perfume your earrings / with breath mints and gin" — Tom Chandler