I’m extremely pleased that Cold Mountain Review has selected my essay, Speech Therapy for publication in its 2022 Spring/Summer issue. It is the first essay from my work-in-progress memoir, currently titled Pillbox. Speech Therapy explores the psychological and emotional ramifications of being born with a cleft palate. I thank the editors of Cold Mountain Review […]
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Airstreaming Amazon Reviews
Every once in awhile I check to see if anyone has written a review or even bought the book. It’s crazy to think you have work out there that people will read, let alone that it moves them to write something nice about a novel you spent years writing. Sometimes, I wish I’d taken this […]
The Outside Toy
The Outside Toy is nothing but a stick you dragged up from the lake where it floated perhaps from the mountains we loved where you raced, a gazelle over felled trees, or dipped your muzzle into clear streams. We were so alike all those years, before my heart collapsed and you laid there all […]
3 Poems at Cathexis Northwest Press
Thank you to the editor(s) at Cathexis Northwest Press for their publication of three poems from my See America collection. It’s a pleasure to be included in their September 2019 issue with other fine poets. Please click on the link below: https://www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/covinatoblytheca1977
The Following Sea
Thank you to the editors of Floating Bridge Press for inclusion of my poem in Pontoon. It’s beautifully presented. The Following Sea
All You Who Sleep Tonight
1 year ago this weekend, I had triple bypass surgery. It’s been a very difficult year save for the brightness of my marriage to my husband, John, last summer and the continuing love he brings. I wrote a cycle of poems that I thought I was finished with, which I presented at the Rainier Valley Lit Crawl […]
A Great Article on “Airstreaming”
Rhonda Coleman wrote this great article about my novel several years ago that I just read again. I wanted to share it out. http://www.airstreaming.net/miscellany/airstreaming-author-tom-schabarum/
Published Poems from See America
I’m very happy to report that two poems from my 16 poem suite, See America, have been published very recently. The Final Drive, Seattle 2015 was published in the Fall/Winter issue of Crab Creek Review. Check our their website here: http://www.crabcreekreview.org West Hollywood to Pasadena, CA, 1998 was published in the Pontoon section of Floating Bridge […]
Confidence
Six years ago, at the beginning of Fall on the cusp of turning 50, and after a summer in which all confidence was beginning to abandon me in many areas of my life, I put together a selection of poems and sent them out in the world. I had not attempted to publish anything for eight […]
The Historical Heart
Remembering everything, the heart, at last, breaks. At first, in the undulating folds as my fetus came together the cleft separated, a misaligned heart began, beating days upon days. It remembered the fall, and mother carrying me to hospital, the salt-air summers in Balboa – running full ‘round the boardwalk. The heart worked hard during […]
Tom Schabarum | Writer 