The Coconut-Water Man

Thomas Reiter is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently Catchment (Louisiana State University Press, 2009). He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, AGNI, The Hudson Review, and elsewhere. He is Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Monmouth University, where he held the Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities. (updated 4/2016)