User:Tlaverty

Tomas Cisneros Laverty is a musical artist, professor and poet from Saginaw, Michigan. He owns Detroit Spaces and was adjunct faculty at Mott Community College, University of Detroit Mercy and various other colleges and schools throughout Michigan.

His musical groups include Bolabit, Ignorant Mob, múnbút, Tomás y los Niños Perdidos and solo arrangements under the titles Tom Laverty Group and Tomas Laverty Group.

His Hammond organ work has appeared on albums with Lee “Scratch” Perry, U Brown, King Mellowman and many others.

BS English/Writing – Northern Michigan University 2005 MA Writing – Northern Michigan University 2009 MFA Creative Writing – Lesley University 2011

''"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire." --Roland Barthes''

Links

 * Official homepage of writer and musician Tomas Laverty