T. J. Anderson III

POET

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Born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, poet and musician T.J. Anderson III is the author of t/here it is ​(Omnidawn Press, 2023), Devonte Travels the Sorry Route (Omnidawn Press, 2019), Cairo Workbook (Willow Books, 2014), River to Cross (The Backwaters Press, 2009), Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2004), Blood Octave (Flat Five Recordings, 2006), and the chapbook At Last Round Up (lift books, 1996). A former Fulbright Scholar at Cairo University, he lives with his family in Roanoke, Virginia, and teaches at Hollins University.