Thomas DeFreitas was born in Boston. Educated at the Boston Latin School, he attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst for three calamitous semesters.
In the summer of 2019, Thomas’s sonnet “Detox” was chosen as an Award Poem by the editors of Plainsongs. In 2024, his poem “Grief” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editor of Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY.
Thomas’s previous collections have all been published by Kelsay Books: his full-length books Walking Between the Raindrops (2025) and Longfellow, Tell Me (2022), and his chapbooks Elegies & Devotions (2025), Swift River Ballad (2023), and Winter in Halifax (2021).
Resident of Arlington, MA, Thomas is active in the New England Poetry Club, Boston’s Black Seed Writers, and a clandestine quartet of below-the-radar bards called the Honeycomb, who are currently plotting to take over the explorable universe and saturate it in lyrical benevolence.
Website:
thomasdefreitas.me
Paperback: 68 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (November 10, 2026)