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Vonnie E. Thomas

Born: 04/10/1917   Montcalm County , MI
Died: 04/27/2003
Parents: Earl J. Wilcox, Myrtle B. Wilcox
Spouse: Kenneth B.
Children: Mary Kathleen, Michael Robert (deceased)
Address(es):
Last known
Greenville , MI 48838

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Changing View A Book of Sonnets Poetry Adult Greenville, MI : Belding Printing 1990
Back in time : collection of memories Non Fiction , History , Michigan Adult Greenville, MI : Greenville News 1990
View Beyond the Tree Michigan , Poetry Adult Greenville, MI: Greenville Printing 1981
- Over 135 poems published in Lyric, Inkling, New England Writers/Vt., Connecticut Review, Pennsylvania Prize Poems, Tennessee Prize Poems, Kentucky Prize Poems, Alura, Arizona Prize Poems, Ohio Prize Poems, Encore and others. Poetry
What is the aim or goal of your writing: "To improve my work. I have hundreds of books of poetry and I enjoy them. I have books to increase my writing skills. I study them all. I have favorite writers: Shakespeare, Milton, Bronte Sisters, Byron, Keats, Robert Lowell, Yeats, Frost, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Penn Warren, Dave Smith, Seamus Heaney and many others."

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

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) Western State Teacher's College, now Western Michigan University Kalamazoo , MI 1922

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Floor Inspector Federal Mogul Corporation Greenville , MI 1947 -1977
Service representative Michigan Bell Telephone Company Ypsilanti , MI 1943 -1945
Teacher
- 1935-1943, 1945-1947 		Montcalm and Kent Counties MI

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MeLCat Links:
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