Born: 02/06/1952   Birmingham , MI
Parents: William and Annette Thorburn
Spouse: Emily Thorburn
Children: Gabriel, Christopher, and Michael
Address(es):
Permanent :
117 West Michigan
Marquette , MI 49855
Contact Information:
Phone : 906-226-6459
Website : http://russthorburn.com/
Email : [email protected]

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Somewhere We’ll Leave the World - Made in Michigan Series	Poetry	Adult	Detroit: Wayne State University Press	2016
	Many Names Have Never Been Spoken Here - As Mojave National Preserve artist-­in-­residence with his son, Gabriel, he fit poems with photographs shot there during a two-­week period, resulting in the glossy page art book.	Poetry	Adult	Barstow, CA : Mojave National Preserve Artists Foundation	2013
	The drunken piano	Poetry	Adult	Greensboro, NC : March Street Press	2009
	The whole tree as told to the backyard : poems	Poetry	Adult	Marquette, Mich. : Rocky Shore Books	2009
	Father, tell me I have not aged : poems - Personal odyssey of crossing the half-­century mark	Poetry	Adult	Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. : Marick Press	2006
	Wheat field with poems and crows : poems / from Negaunee Middle School - Editor	Poetry	Adult , Children , Teen	[Michigan] : Marquette Arts Council	2004
	Stars frozen in the night sky : poems - Edited by students from Father Marquette Elementary and Middle Schools	Poetry	Adult , Children , Teen	Marquette, Mich. : Lirrerature d' Aphelie	2003
	A little leaf squiggles into a poem : poems / by students at Father Marquette Elementary	Poetry	Adult , Children , Teen	Marquette, Mich. : Litterature d' Aphelie	2002
	The Weight of Umber and Sienna	Poetry	Adult	Greensboro, NC : March Street Press	2001
	No turning back : poems / from Father Marquette Middle School ; edited by Russell Thorburn, artist-in-residence. - Edited by Russell Thorburn, artist-in-residence	Poetry	Teen	Marquette, Mich. : Litterature d' Aphelie	2001
	Happy Birthday James Joyce - Radio Play celebrating his 56th birthday for National Radio affiliate and was performed on Off-Off Broadway by The Samuel Beckett Players. Aired February 2, 2001.	Drama	Adult	[Michigan?] : Burning House Studio	2001
	Approximate Desire: Poems - 1st ed.	Poetry	Adult	Kalamazoo, MI : New Issues Press, Western Michigan University	1999
	- Poetry and articles in Witness, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, Third Coast, The Quarterly, The PrePress Awards, Volume 2, Passages North, Poet Lore, LitRag, The Ledge, Sulphur River Literary Review, Parting Gifts, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Prairie, and Northeast	Poetry	Adult
	Salt and Blood - Thorburn’s noir; its prose style is described as somewhere between Cormac McCarthy and Raymond Chandler, hard­hitting language to the gut, like music and poetry on the edge of murder and mayhem in a world populated by Mexican detectives, an endless string of corpses, who speak from the grave, and all the while the terrible soul of the desert is never far away.	Fiction	Adult	Grosse Pointe Farms, MI : Marick Press

What is the aim or goal of your writing: My success is attributed to good readers (fellow poets who attended Western Michigan University's MFA program) and an early love for reading (grade school level). I work every day and take creative risks in each poem, play or fiction I write.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: Yes

Skills:
Poet
Other - Playwright

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