A. Thomas Loudermilk
A. Loudermilk grew up in Southern
Illinois. He received his MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from
Indiana University at Bloomington, where he still teaches
creative writing and composition. His collection The
Daughterliest Son won the Swan Scythe Press Second Annual
Chapbook Competition (Sandra McPherson, ed.). Loudermilk has
recently finished a collection of creative nonfiction and
criticism titled Neither Here Nor There, and is currently
working on a collection of film-derived poems to be titled
Loop. His poems, non-fiction,
and cultural criticism have appeared in Tin House, The
Mississippi Review, The Madison Review (as winner of the Phyllis
Smart Young Prize in Poetry), The Redneck Review, River Teeth,
Journal X, the anthology Car Crash Culture (Palgrave, 2001), and
elsewhere. He teaches composition and creative writing at
Indiana University, Bloomington.
"I am daring love to be anything else," A.
Loudermilk writes, "to be on its best behavior wicked, to be
heartache/in its prime." Daring's exactly the word; these
fearless and live-wire poems portray Southern culture - and the
prism and prison of gender - with candor, rage, and an eye for
telling detail so exact it verges on tenderness. And Loudermilk
gives us a world of context; here are Nina Simone, Hubert Selby,
Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra drag; evidence, all of them, of
the strangeness and fury of love.
-- Mark Doty
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Professor Mikita Brottman, Chezia Thompson Cager & Poet, A. Thomas Loudermilk
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Loudermilk and class
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Loudermilk reading
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