G. Murray Thomas‘ poetry has been published in numerous literary magazines, including Chiron Review, Pearl, Caffeine and Spillway. He has had articles and reviews published in OC Weekly, Panik, and Skratch, as well as the websites Poetix, Ground Control, Poetic Diversity and The Independent Reviews Site.
Thomas’ first full length collection of poems, “Cows on the Freeway”, was published by iUniverse in 2000. He has also published five chapbooks. In 2005, iUniverse reprinted Paper Shredders, an anthology of surf poetry Thomas first published in 1993. He has a new book, “My Kidney Just Arrived”, coming from Tebot Bach in spring 2011.
Thomas is best known as the editor of Next… Magazine, a poetry calendar/newsmagazine for Southern California. Next… Magazine was published monthly between 1994 and 1998. Thomas currently edits a monthly listing of poetry events for Poetix.net, the source for information about SoCal poetry. He is also the Reviews Editor for Poetix.
- Giving it Back by G. Murray Thomas
