Poetry. In his tenth book, BRAINLIFTS, long-time New York poet Tom Savage writes and riffs off films, music, dance and art with a sustained aphoristic style, each thought exploding and reverberating in a complex music. Of Tom's work Dean Kostos writes that Tom's idiom "can become a trapdoor through which we fall, finding other structures and ways of speaking." Bernadette Mayer writes, "He transforms the pretty rational souls of stuff into the pretty anti-rational souls, leaping elliptically, sometimes elliptically logically from perception so quickly to its part and art." Alice Notley writes, "I've been reading Tom Savage's poems for a long time and have come to realize that I need each new book."

Tom Savage has published six other books of poems including Political Conditions Physical States (United Artists Books 1993), Processed Words (Coffeehouse Press, 1990) and Housing, Preservation & Development (Cheap Review Press 1988). His book of poems written in Afghanistan in 1970 called From Herat To Balkh and Back Again is forthcoming from O.L.A.A.T. Press. For nine years he was the editor of Tamarind magazine and contributed to it monthly. In the late 1980s he edited Gandhabba magazine and taught a workshop for poets and composers at the Poetry Project in New York. Currently he teaches a poetry workshop for senior citizens at Encore Community Services Center/ The Actor's Chapel/ St. Malachy's Church, New York.