Larry D. Thomas, the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, has published twenty-five print poetry books and numerous poetry chapbooks both in print and online. Buttonhook Press and Hot Button Press (Open: Journal of Arts & Letters) have published online three of his recent chapbooks and four of his pamphlets, the most recent of which is his chapbook, Singing a Hymn to the Sea: Poems of the Gulf Coast.