Tom Driscoll is a poet and essayist who lives and works in Lowell, Massachusetts. His poetry has appeared in Abraxas Review, Rock Salt Journal, Scapegoat Review, The Worcester Review, Oddball Magazine, Carcosa Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Decadent Review, Drawn To The Light, What Rough Beast and Second Coming from Indolent Books and in several Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Anthologies.
Tom’s poem ‘Duty Leave Home’ won the Robert P. Collén Poetry Prize in 2017. ‘Notes on Demolition’ was selected an Editor’s Choice for the Allen Ginsberg Prize and ‘This isn’t the first time’ received Third Place in The Frank O’Hara Prize —both in 2021. ‘Upon Stealing Smithsonian Folkways from Franklin Library, Summer 1974’ won The Letter Review Poetry prize in 2024.
Tom Driscoll’s books are available through
amazon.com / barnesandnoble.com / lulu.com
and at select local booksellers
Poems
The Champion of Doubt
Absence Singing
Instead of peace
Odd Numbers
April: 30 Poems
Prose
Personal Histories
Tom Driscoll Writing 