About Thomas Devaney
Born 1969. Thomas Devaney is an American poet, musician and university teacher.
Thomas Devaney (born 1969) is an American poet and a 2014 Pew Fellow in the Arts. His poem “The Blue Stoop,” which is after a photograph by Zoe Strauss, is also the name of a community literary hub in Philadelphia, founded in 2018. His 2014 book The Picture that Remains with Will Brown is a collaboration between image and text with Devaney’s poems and Brown’s photographs from the early 70’s in Philadelphia. From 2001-2005, he was program coordinator of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2011, he has taught in the English Department at Haverford College.
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Thomas Devaney was born in 1969 in Philadelphia.
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Thomas Devaney is a poet, musician and university teacher.
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