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Padma Jared Thornlyre was born in 1959 in Fort Collins,
Colorado. Graduating from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1981,
Thornlyre returned to Colorado, and now lives in Evergreen with his
wife, Julie, and daughter, Circe. A student of Tibetan Nyingma
Buddhism, Jared received the name “Padma Gyalpo” from his lama,
Chagdud Tulku, Rinpoche, upon taking his bodhisattva vow, after which
he legally changed his name from Jared Dean Farnsworth. “Thornlyre”
is Padma’s own invention, the flowering of several years’
contemplation. Padma is a member of The Ancient Order of the Fire
Gigglers-poets and musicians who honor the Earth by cleaning a remote
but beautiful stretch of Colorado highway and gathering yearly in the
Rocky Mountains to reaffirm their dedication to community and shared
values, most especially art and environment. Most Gigglers bear a
Giggler-specific nickname: Padma’s is “Mossbeard.”

Publishing History: I’ve published three books-including My Guru, My
Midwife (Baculite Publications 1994) and Angel Flesh (Baculite
1998)-and have seen approximately 170 individual poems accepted by
various journals over the years, most recently by Colorado’s The
Mountain Gazette. Two of my poems recently appeared in an anthology
of poetry and art remembering September 11, titled Singing this Great
Body Back Together (Baculite 2002), edited by poet Michael Adams.
More work is included in the yet-to-be-published Longhand Press
anthology, On Frybread and Poetry. Current projects include Eating
Totem, poems of place and community; and Burning, poems addressing
social and political issues.

04/02/02




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