BELFAST — Thomas R. Moore will launch his sixth book of poetry, Unleashed (Moon Pie Press), on Sunday, May 5, from 4 - 6 p.m., at the Local Color Gallery, in Belfast.

He will be joined for a reading at 4:30 p.m. by former Belfast poets laureate Ellen Sander and Judy Kaber, and his wife, Leslie Moore, printmaker, poet, and member of Local Color Gallery.

The cover of Moore’s new book features a painting by Sheep Jones, a yearly guest artist at the gallery.   

A four-times Pushcart nominee, Thomas R. Moore won a Pushcart Prize in 2018 with How We Built Our House. His work has been broadcast on Writer’s Almanac and American Life in Poetry, and he received an Individual Artist Grant from the Maine Arts Commission.

He taught at universities in Iran, Turkey, Mali, and the US, and his work is included in the 2018 Best of the Small Presses Anthology. In 2017 and 2018 he served as Poet Laureate for Belfast, Maine. He has published over a hundred poems in various literary journals. In a recent review, Dana Wilde called him “one of the most skilled poets we have in Maine right now.”