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Teacher, Coach, and Poet

Teacher and basketball Coach John Thompson has been writing poetry his whole life. A 10-year resident of Pella, Thompson holds an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from New England College and has completed post-graduate coursework at the Harvard University Creative Writing Program and the University Writers’ Workshop with honors.

A 10-year Pella resident, John likes to write in people-filled places. “Many of my books were written at the Pella Public Library and Smokey Row,” John said.

After 9 published poetry volumes, Thompson plans to release his first humor book, Fame on You, in time for the 2015 holidays.

Tender Revolutions is a book of poetry telling stories and provoking rich nostalgic imagery. This hardcover collection of poems offers a diverse range of reader-friendly styles.

John tells us of a unique feature of this tightly-themed work of how things go around in Degrees of Turns. “The pagination is set up to reflect the degrees of turning, starting at 6 Degrees and moving around by six degrees until it is finished at a full circle of 360 degrees.”