{"product_id":"stars-bestow-their-quadrillionary-blessing","title":"Stars Bestow Their Quadrillionary Blessing","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas DeFreitas\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Boston. Educated at the Boston Latin School, he attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst for three calamitous semesters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eIn the summer of 2019, Thomas’s sonnet “Detox” was chosen as an Award Poem by the editors of \u003ci\u003ePlainsongs.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2024, his poem “Grief” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editor of \u003ci\u003eAutumn Sky Poetry DAILY\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThomas’s previous collections have all been published by Kelsay Books: his full-length books \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/walking-between-the-raindrops?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=ae495e7d3\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalking Between the Raindrops\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2025) and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/longfellow-tell-me?_pos=5\u0026amp;_sid=ae495e7d3\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLongfellow, Tell Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2022), and his chapbooks \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/elegies-devotions?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=2c68e0793\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eElegies \u0026amp; Devotions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2025), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/swift-river-ballad?_pos=4\u0026amp;_sid=ae495e7d3\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSwift River Ballad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2023), and \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/winter-in-halifax?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=2c68e0793\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eWinter in Halifax\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2021).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eResident 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eWebsite:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thomasdefreitas.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003ethomasdefreitas.me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 68 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (November 10, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54707738640568,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/0800\/0329\/files\/defreitas_front_be072400-a13e-4bee-8486-872ea36e6936.jpg?v=1794354750","url":"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/stars-bestow-their-quadrillionary-blessing","provider":"Kelsay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}