Please go to Tom's new website and blog: http://www.tomlyford.com/
Two chapbooks of Lyford's poetry, Pleasant Street: A Chapbook of Baby Boomer Ballads & Poems and Poetic License were published in 2005;Tom's third chapbook entitled On Becoming a Man of Substance was released in May, 2006 and his fourth, Americana, came out in November. All four in-print books are still available .
Recent poems have been published in Sakana, Bangor Metro, Off the Coast, Wolf Moon Press Journal and The Bangor Daily News. In the May 2006 issue of Maine's Off the Coast , Dave Moreau reviews Pleasant Street, and Dana Wilde reviews AMERICANA in the January 22, 2007 issue of the Bangor Daily News. Both reviews may be viewed on this site by clicking on "Reviews" in the menu .
Lyford was selected as one of the presenting poets at Winter Harbor's Schoodic Arts Festival in August 2005. He co-read with Belfast's Poet Laureate, Elizabeth Garber, at Bangor's Borders in February 2006; in March and April was a featured poet at Camden Library's Spring Poetry Series and Damariscotta's "A Symphony of Poets" library program respectively; and in mid-November he was a featured reader with Darcy Shargo and Robin Merrill at The Harlow Gallery in Hallowell, Maine. During April, 2007, Tom was featured with another Maine poet, retired educator Ken Nye, for the National Poetry Month celebration at the Rumford Public Library in Rumford, Maine.
