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  • An accomplished classical guitarist, lover of all things Joan of Arc and late night scholar of Henry David Thoreau, poet Troy Casa, has lived in wonderfully strange places like Reno, Nevada, Gahanna, Ohio and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, all the while, poem writing. Currently, he resides in Merrimack, New Hampshire. He can reached via eMail at troy.casa@comcast.net :
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  • The Stark Realities that Surround Texas, printed at Wordrunner Chapbooks in Petaluma, California, is available through the author. Please send check or money order for $10 [includes S&H] to: Troy Casa, 26 Walnut Circle, Merrimack, NH. 03054.:
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Troy Casa is the author of The Stark Realities that Surround Texas, [Wordrunner, 2005] and White Reflects the Sun. He is currently at work on a new book of poems, Reveille at the Devil's Half Acre. Mr. Casa is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of English and Communications at Rivier College in Nashua, NH.

Mr. Casa is winner of the 2009 Merrimack Public Library Poetry Contest. In addition, his work has appeared in The Café Review, Feile-Festa, Brushfire, Words & Images, Animus, Midwest Poetry Review and the Bangor Daily News. He planned and executed the first annual Belfast Poetry Festival in October, 2005. Funded in part by grants from the Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation, The Maine Community Foundation and the Maine Humanities Council. The three-day event featured poets Charles Simic, Anne-Marie Macari, Baron Wormser, Elizabeth Garber, Matthew Thorburn, Gary Lawless, Robert Duffy and over 30 poets from Maine, New York, New Hampshire and Canada.

  Mr. Casa continues to promote local poetry events and recently coordinated a series of library readings paying homage to E.E. Cummings. He has participated as a featured reader at the Sebec Music & Arts Festival, Schoodic Arts Festival, Poet/Speak and the Penobscot Poetry Walk.

   Troy is a graduate of The Ohio State University Department of Art History, studied music at the University of New Mexico and completed an MBA at Regis University. He owns and operates a small antiquarian online bookstore, Henry and the Muse, which focuses on academic history, literature and the arts.


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  • "Casa's work has continued to impress me with its ability to weave together disjointed images and symbols, creating a cohesive and complex tapestry of emotions. The emotional space of the first line becomes an entryway with an unknown destination. It is his unpredictability with imagery that keeps me interested." --Alissa Hall: