Tom Daley has been inspired by the anthology, A Celtic Miscellany (translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson); Jerome Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred; the poetry of Lucie Brock-Broido, Atsuro Riley, Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, Gwendolyn Brooks, Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, Arthur Rimbaud, and Aimé Césaire; Thomas McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend; and Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems. A machinist for over twenty years, he now teaches writing workshops online and in the Boston area.