Author Archives | Robb Thomson
Robb Thomson grew up in El Paso, Texas during the mid 20’s to early 40’s of the last century. He was educated at the University of Chicago and at Syracuse University, where he received a PhD in Physics. He spent a career in research and teaching on the faculties of the University of Illinois (Urbana) and The State University of New York (Stony Brook) and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Thomson lives in Santa Fe, NM, and writes poetry because, as the most powerful language we have, it is a joyful guide to one’s unfamiliar self, and an equally enlightening guide to the outside world we only thought we knew.
He has written one earlier book of poems, Arranging the Constellations published by Mercury Heartlink.
Weekly Poem: The Spring
Like the way a spring seems
To rise, fresh, out of a silent earth,
So my words, once started,
Find their own way
From my equally silent depths.
I suppose the invisible machinery
Of my subconscious is involved,
But a poem is more than something
Stirred from darkly distorted memories of
My pasts...
10. October 2013
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