Thom Schramm’s Thorn House: West Coast Book Launch and Poetry Reading
Seattle writer Thom Schramm will read from his debut full-length poetry collection Thorn House, which won the 2025 Granite State Poetry Prize and was launched at the University of New Hampshire’s Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival in April. A graduate of the University of Washington’s MFA program and former UW poetry instructor, Schramm returns to read at Hugo House for the first time in our new building.
Praise for Thorn House:
“Thorn House is a collection that enthralls the reader from the lyrical hypnosis of the very first poem, weaving a spell that propels us through the book’s entirety… At the heart of each line and stanza sits the New Hampshire wilderness, a place of cold and remoteness and wonder.”
— Jennifer Militello, New Hampshire Poet Laureate
“Thorn House is a deeply moving meditation on (simultaneously) affliction and purifying restoration.”
—Bruce Beasley, Emeritus Professor of English at Western Washington University
Thom Schramm
Thom Schramm is the author of Thorn House (Yas Press, 2025), winner of the Granite State Poetry Prize, and the poetry chapbook The Leaf Blower (Blue Cubicle Press, 2016). He is also the editor of the anthology Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic-Depression (Eastern Washington University Press, 2008). His poems have appeared in journals such as AGNI, The American Scholar, Crab Creek Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry Northwest, and on King County Metro buses.
