Thomas rain crowe biography

Crowe, Thomas Rain (1949–)

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Thomas Rain Crowe (Tuckaseegee, NC was born in 1949) is a poet, translator, editor, publisher, recording artist and author of twelve books of original and translated works.

During the 1970s he lived abroad in France, then returned to the U.S. to become editor of Beatitude magazine and press in San Francisco and one of the "Baby Beats" and where he was co-founder and Director of the San Francisco International Poetry Festival.

In the 1980s, after returning to his boyhood home in North Carolina, he was a founding editor of Katuah Journal: A Bioregional Journal of the Southern Appalachians and founded New Native Press. In 1994 he founded Fern Hill Records (a recording label devoted exclusively to the collaboration of poetry and music).

Almost immediately, he formed his spoken-word and music band The Boatrockers--who have performed widely in the Southeast and produced two CDs. In 1998 his books The Laugharn