Tom Crawford’s six previous collections of poems include Caging the Robin The Names of Birds, star-reviewed in BookList, The Temple on Monday, recipient of the Foreword Book of the Year, , which won the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. He has received the Pushcart Prize, the Hazel Hall Award for Poetry, and Hubbub Awards. His poems have been widely published in journals such as Chelsea, Columbia Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, and many others.