Tohm Bakelas

Poet

Denville, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
tohm.bakelas@gmail.com
Website: 
tohmbakelaspoetry.wordpress.com

Author's Bio

Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, zines, and online publications. He is the author of 27 chapbooks and several collections of poetry, including "Cleaning the Gutters of Hell” (Zeitgeist Press, 2023) and “The Ants Crawl In Circles” (Bone Macine, Inc., 2024). He has read his poems across America and England. He is also the editor of Between Shadows Press.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Ants Crawl in Circles (Bone Machine, Inc., 2024)
,
Cleaning the Gutters of Hell (Zeitgeist Press, 2023)
Chapbooks:
Hangman's Lament (Laughing Ronin Press, 2023)
,
Flexeril Haikus (Between Shadows Press, 2021)
,
Punk Poets Are Pretentious Assholes (Between Shadows Press, 2021)
,
Swallowed Smoke (Poems-For-All, 2019)
,
Destroy My Wound (Budget Press, 2018)
Journals:
A Thin Slice of Anxiety
,
Altadena Poetry Review
,
Amethyst Review
,
Anti-Heroin Chic
,
Ariel Chart
,
As It Ought To Be Magazine
,
Asahi Shimbun
,
Bear Creek Haiku
,
Beatnik Cowboys
,
Between Shadows Press
,
Big Hammer
,
BlazeVOX
,
Book of Matches
,
Cardinal Sins
,
deuce coupe
,
Drifting Sands
,
Elephant
,
Eunoia Review
,
Failed Haiku
,
Fevers of the Mind
,
Fleas on the Dog
,
Fragmented Voices
,
Gas
,
Gasconade Review
,
Hiram Poetry Review
,
Hobo Camp Review
,
Horror Sleaze Trash
,
Ignatian Literary Magazine
,
Impspired
,
Jersey Devil Press
,
Little Patuxent Review
,
Lothlorien Poetry Journal
,
Loud Coffee Press
,
M58
,
Mad Swirl
,
Medusa's Kitchen
,
Misfitmagazine
,
Monterey Poetry Review
,
Nerve Cowboy
,
Nixes Mate Review
,
North of Oxford
,
Oddball Magazine
,
Oddville Press
,
Open Skies Poetry
,
Otoliths
,
Pine Cone Review
,
Pinyon
,
Poetry South
,
Poetry Super Highway
,
Prole
,
Rat's Ass Review
,
Raw Art Review
,
Red Coyote
,
Roanoke Review
,
Rusty Truck
,
Rye Whiskey Review
,
Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
,
Scriblerus
,
Sequoia Speaks
,
Sheila-Na-Gig
,
Shot Glass Journal
,
Spectrum
,
Spillwords Press
,
Stillwater Review
,
Synchronized Chaos
,
Terror House Magazine
,
The Piker Press
,
The Red Branch Journal
,
The Zen Space
,
Tower Journal
,
Trailer Park Quarterly
,
Trajectory
,
Trampoline
,
U.S. 1 Worksheets
,
Willard & Maple
,
Winamop
Prizes won: 

2023 Northwind Writing Award (Raw Earth Ink)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Sep 25, 2024