Tom Clark

Tom Clark (March 1, 1941 – August 18, 2018) was an American poet, editor and biographer. Clark was born on the Near West Side of Chicago, and attended Fenwick High School in Oak Park. After high school, he attended the University of Michigan, where he received a Hopwood Award for poetry. On March 22, 1968, he married Angelica Heinegg, at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York City. As of 2013, he was living in California. Clark's final books of poetry are Light & Shade: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House, 2006) and Threnody (effing press, 2006).