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Thomas L. Vaultonburg
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Thomas L. Vaultonburg (born February 7, 1969) is an American poet and writer heralded by both Ginsberg and Bukowski as one of the emerging poets on the American scene. Life Thomas L. Vaultonburg grew up in the shadows of the Byron Nuclear Generating Station. Vaultonburg began publishing poetry in the small press scene at age nineteen and encouraged by poets like Ron Androla, Gerald Locklin, Todd Moore and Charles Bukowski, soon wracked up an impressive list of publications before he dropped out of the publishing scene altogether to pursue a career in the restaurant/bar business, where he worked 12 years as a bartender, bouncer, and finally in 2006 owned his own bar, Castaways, with his brother Dan. In 2009 the two opened Boonies Roadhouse. Vaultonburg is the founder of Zombie Logic Press, an underground avant guard Rockford artists group called The Dirty Trick Squad, and Rockford Rage Roller Derby. He is credited as coining the phrase "Zombie Logic" meaning "Braindead. Acting zombie-like. Mall walker. Later applied to computer jargon. An oxymoron as zombies display no logic, only impulse." Since 1997 Vaultonburg's poetry can only be read at Zombie Logic Press. Vaultonburg currently resides in Rockford, Illinois Works Periodical Publications *Exquisite Corpse 1990 *Karamu 1990 *Red Cedar Review *Pearl, Paper Radio *Chiron Review Vol XI #3 Autumn 1992 *Onionhead *Minotaur *Slipstream Issue #13 1993 *Sulphur River Literary Review *Fox Cry *Trestle Creek Review *Caliban 1995 *The Rockford Review *Buzzard Review *Black Bear Review *Black Moon 1996-1997 *Bogg *Abbey *Gargoyle *Lilliput Review *The Plastic Tower *Yefief 1997 Book Publications *Concave Buddha 1991 The Press of the Third Mind Chicago ISBN 0-666321-748-5 *Detached Retinas 1997 Zombie Logic Press Byron, Illinois ISBN 0-9670191-0-9 Anthologies Vaultonburg appeared in the anthology 1999: Thus Spake the Corpse: an Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998. Volume One, Poetry and Essays. Co-edited with Laura Rosenthal, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, edited by Andrei Codrescu. Also appearing in this anthology, from the same publisher that published Charles Bukowski were literary heavyweights such as Paul Violi, Mike Topp, Edward Sanders and Alice Notley. Forthcoming Book Publications *Flesh Wounds Zombie Logic Press Rockford, IL 61103 ISBN 0-9670191-1-7 *Submerged Structures Zombie Logic Press Rockford, IL 61103 *Atrocities A to Z Zombie Logic Press Rockford, IL 61103 Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors *Listed member of PW Writer's Directory 
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