A National Arts Club Fellow for 2023-24, Thomas March is a poet, performer, and essayist who lives in New York City. He is the author of Aftermath (2018), a poetry collection that poet Joan Larkin selected for The Word Works Hilary Tham Capital Collection. From 2017-2023, he was the curator and host of the long-running variety salon Poetry/Cabaret. With painter Valerie Mendelson, he is the co-creator of A Good Mixer, a text and visual hybrid project that imagines a virtual cocktail party in the form of paintings of people’s cocktails and poems representing the thoughts and desires of their drinkers. In recent years, he has written and performed “tragi-comic” monologues across New York City, including Ars Nova, The Duplex, Joe’s Pub, The Peoples Improv Theater, and Sid Gold’s Request Room. A past recipient of the Norma Millay Ellis Fellowship in Poetry, from Millay Arts, he also received an Artist/Writer grant from The Vermont Studio Center.
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