Tom Montag

Tom Montag is a middlewestern poet and essayist who grew up on an Iowa farm, as described in his memoir CURLEW: HOME. He has published poems on Verse-Virtual across several features from 2018 to 2025. He is also managing editor of the Lorine Niedecker Monograph Series, What Region?, and writes a blog called The Middlewesterner. His most recent collection named on the pages is In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013. His poems have also appeared in Hummingbird, Atticus Review, and Hamilton Stone Review.