Thomas Elias Weatherly

THOMAS ELIAS WEATHERLY was born in 1942 in Scottsboro, Alabama. He, an orthodox Jew, grew up in Chasam Sofer shul on the lower east side. He authored Maumau American Cantos, Thumbprint, Climate/Stream with Ken Bluford, and co-edited with Ted Wilentz Natural Process, an anthology of African American poets. His latest book is a short history of the saxophone from The Groundwater Press, Hudson, NY, 2006. Grandparents Sippie Wallace and Wallace Stevens, Jimmy Rogers and Hilda Doolittle imbue his music with boogie and funk. He invents the cross prosody form the glory, and reinvents note worthy deployment of sound, vowel and consonant, and as chords, syllables. He writes jazz. He improvises sonic and semantic melodies with the language. His politics, his grandgals.