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T. Kilgore Splake
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T. Kilgore Splake (born Thomas Hugh Smith, December 8, 1937) is an American poet, photographer and editor. Splake attained his B.A. and M.A. collegiate degrees from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. He later taught Political Science at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Michigan. Splake began writing after accepting early retirement from his professorship. He has since written and published over 65 books of poetry and prose. He has composed four books of photography and over a dozen audio/video tapes, CDs, and DVDs. Over 3,000 of his poems and photographs have appeared since 1980. Splake was the founding editor of the publication CLIFFS Soundings, a quarterly publication featuring both prose and artwork. Splake's work has earned him a dozen Pushcart Prize nominations and drawn international attention to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, his home base for over twenty years. Up in the Cliffs, at the top of the Copper Keewenaw peninsula, Splake maintains a Poet's Tree monument topped by a Tibetan Prayer Flag that draws international interest from visiting poet and artist hikers. His creative work is archived at the University of New York/Buffalo, Ohio State University, Northern Michigan University, and Michigan Technological University. His books Sadness of Backwater Women and Last Train Out are part of the curriculum in poetry classes at Gogebic College in Ironwood, Michigan. Bibliography Books *Lost Whispers (2010) *The Winter Diary (2009) *The Winter Diary Notebook (2009) *Backwater Graybeard Twilight (2006) Chapbooks *2010 Union Printer *2010 The Poet Tree *2010 facebook *2010 backwater bard loft musings *2010 Splakeus and lillies *2009 beyond the cliffs *2009 deuce *2009 the Brautigan table *2007 Samantha *2007 connections *2006 betsy *2006 the dredge *2006 shadows passing *2005 dream song dream *2005 cold mountain passages *2005 bum wine *2004 next stop paradise *2004 random diary *2004 evergreen *2002 available light *2002 lac la belle *2001 the murderous clown *2001 rainbow rising *2001 the cliffs *2000 morning mourning *2000 being becoming *2000 light lightness *2000 shadows visible *1999 The Jack Kerouac Upper Peninsula diary *1999 trout dancing sonata *1997 last train out *1997 opening day breakfast musings *1995 memories *1995 odyssey to civilization and back *1995 twilight long white *1993 boho beat theater *1993 expatriate homeboy returns *1993 Keewenaw love story *1993 a loving enemy my muse *1992 springtime for Oona and Brautigan *1991 soft echoes behind the waterfall *1990 a hole in reality *1989 soul whispers *1988 Keewenaw: Copper County *1987 notes from the cave *1985 ghost surroundings *1985 pictured rocks memories *1984 superior land lights *1983 Paris express *1983 Alaskan letters *1983 beyond the fire *1981 October softly *1981 mute whispers *1980 dark musings *1979 rest stop *1979 pictured rocks poetry Editorial work Splake is the Editor in Chief of Angst Productions, Calumet, Michigan. 
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