Gale Marie Thompson

GALE MARIE THOMPSON

WRITER / TEACHER / EDITOR

October: friends & apples & Zelda cookies & fall fest & the best mom & the silliest of animals 🌲🍁🍂

Hi, friends. I am incredibly grateful to rob mclennan (@rob_mclennan_writer) for publishing the title poem from MOUNTAIN AMNESIA, a poem that means so much to me—in the spotlight series, and for being a steadfast supporter of my work and of poe

Faculty fall paddle — (the beginnings of) fall foliage and some fall friend-age as well. ❤️🍂🍁🛶☀️

It has been quite some time since I’ve shared any poems, so I am so so pleased and grateful to have two published in this seasons’s @bennreview with some amazing company (swipe to see issue). Here’s one of them. It’s my favori

💫 They say don’t meet your heroes, but they didn’t say anything about K.K. Slider. 💫 Had a wonderful time at the Georgia Aquarium yesterday! They had an Animal Crossing crossover event, so we got to meet K.K. Slider and there were some

August. ✌🏼 🔥 🐈 🤝🏼 ☀️ 🥇 🤸🏼

(I don’t always take pictures of us eating dinner—we got first place in trivia)

Hi folks! I’ll be reading for the @sundresspublications Poets in Pajamas this Sunday (8/11) with Irene Vázquez. Party starts at 7pm. I’ve got the link in my bio, and I’ll be reminding you of the link day of in my stories. It

If you’re getting ready for The Sealey Challenge (@thesealeychallenge) in August, don’t forget to add one of these three books to your list! (And tag me when you read it!)

Soldier On (2015, Tupelo Press @tupelopress)
Helen or My Hunger (

Cornbread Ted & the Irregulars ✌🏼🪕
featuring our own @eloisewhisenhunt @tedwhisenhunt @richardrknepp

This was so fun to do in a criminally short amount of time. Here’s my NYtimes books top books of the 21st century (thanks to @ktlee.writes for the Canva template!). I feel so certain I’ve left many many books out, especially in poetry, wh

In high school I used to sneak into the sanctuary at church to play Sarah songs on the big piano, which felt like church to me. Last night also felt like being taken to church. 😭👑😇💕✨🙌🏼

It was decades in the making (shout out to my mom who woul

From Jane Huffman’s PUBLIC ABSTRACT:

I’m loving this book so far.

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