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Tohm Bakelas

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Born

in Denville, New Jersey, The United States

Website

https://tohmbakelaspoetry.wordpress.com

Genre

Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

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Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Kent Taylor, d.a. levy, Li Po, Everet ...more

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February 2019

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Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. His poems have been printed widely in journals, zines, and online publications all over the world. He is a recipient of the 2023 Northwind Writing Award (Raw Earth Ink). He is the author of twenty-seven chapbooks and several collections of poetry, including “Cleaning the Gutters of Hell (Zeitgeist Press, 2023) and “The Ants Crawl in Circles” (Bone Machine, Inc., 2024). He runs Between Shadows Press.

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Tohm Bakkelas
PO Box 394
Denville, NJ
07834

Instagram: @flexyourhead & @betweenshadowspress

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	Punk Poets Are Pretentious Assholes 4.88 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Orphan Road 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flexeril Haikus by Tohm Bakelas (Goodreads Author), Danny D. Ford (Illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haikus, Nearkus, Fauxkus, Fuckyous by Tohm Bakelas (Goodreads Author), Luke Young (Goodreads Author), Claire Richardson 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Jersey to Belle by Tohm Bakelas (Goodreads Author), John Dorsey 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Decaying Sun Under Noontime Rain 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Destination 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vacation Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stare into the Sun / The Road Ranger Poems by Tohm Bakelas (Goodreads Author), John Dorsey it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE ANTS CRAWL IN CIRCLES it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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