Colorado Poets Center

Rawdon Tomlinson

Biography

Currently teaching at Arapahoe Community College, Rawdon Tomlinson lives in Denver with his wife Karen, a painter and teacher at Regis High School, and their three daughters.  Tomlinson has a Ph. D. from the University of Denver.  He regularly publishes poems in Sewanee Review, Ohio Review, Shenandoah, and other journals.

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Bibliography

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Deep Red.  University of Central Florida Press, 1995.  Winner of the 1996 Colorado Book Award for Poetry.
If You Could Lick My Heart:  Geronimo After Kas-Ki-Yeh.  Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
The Line.  Pudding House Press, 2004.

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Critical Commentary

For Deep Red
“Richard Hugo had said:  'for lines are really the veins of men / whether men know it or not.'  The same might be said of Rawdon Tomlinson's impressive book Deep Red.  It is testament to the fact that authentic poetry simply can't be faked.  It must always cost.  It must always hurt a little.  It must manage somehow to be, like Deep Red, that most difficult paradox:  beautifully human.”—Jonathan Holden, University Distinguished Professor/Poet-in-Residence, Kansas State University

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