Born: 1951  
Parents: Don and Victoria Torreson
Spouse: Paulette
Children: Tasha, Ted, and Travis
Address(es):
Permanent :
3930 Mayfield Ave NE Apt 2e
Grand Rapids , MI Grand Rapids, MI 49525-6606
Contact Information:
Website : www.throughthe3rdeye.com/

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	The secrets of fieldwork : poems	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Georgetown, Ky. : Finishing Line Press	2010
	Cultivating a sense of place : poetry by West Michigan youth	Michigan , Poetry	Adult , Teen	Grand Rapids, Mich. : The Grand Rapids Area Council for the Humanities	2009
	A breathable light	Poetry	Adult	Kalamazoo, Mich. : New Issues/Western Michigan University	2002
	The ripening of pinstripes : called shots on the New York Yankees - New York Yankees Baseball Team Poetry	Poetry	Adult	Brownsville, Or. : Story Line Press	1998
	On a moonstruck gravel road	Poetry	Adult	La Crosse, WI. : Juniper	1994
	Contemporary Michigan Poetry : Poems from the Third Coast - Anthology	Poetry	Adult	Wayne State University	1988
	- His poems have appeared in Arete: The Journal of Sports Literature, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Great Lakes Review, and Passages North	Poetry	Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: "A poem is like looking at things through a 3rd eye," Mr. Torreson tells his young students. What other way is there to explain a poem? Robert Frost said, "Poetry is what gets lost in translation." In this way, a poem can be different for everyone. Everyone writes from behind the lens of their own worldviews, but with poetry, what you see is not always what you get. Torreson encourages us to see things in a new way, because like Frost said, a poet's job is to pick up on subtleties that others normally wouldn't. Poetry is taking things, anything from animals to people to objects, and defining them creatively and with rich language. The most interesting poems are those that contain words with more than one meaning, words with consonance, and words that evoke emotion in the reader. It is easy to see that poetry cannot be tied down to a single definition; poetry is defined by the poet.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Poet

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