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Poet Thom Ward Will Read From His Poetry at Rochester Poets April Meeting
CONTACT: Gerald Schwartz, Secretary, Rochester Poets
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Poet Thom Ward will read from his work at the April meeting
of the Rochester Poets on Saturday, April 12th, 2003 at 2:00 pm.,
Covenant United Methodist Church, 1124 Culver Road,
Rochester, NY 14609. The event is free and open to the public.
Thom Ward holds degrees in English from The College of Wooster
and the SUNY College at Brockport. Currently, he is Editor/Development
Director for BOA Editions, Ltd., an independent publishing house of
American poetry and poetry in translation. He is the only editor
ever to edit two poetry collections nominated in a single year for
The National Book Award for Poetry: Kim Addonizio's Tell Me and
Lucille Clifton's Blessing the Boats - the eventual winner of the 2001 Award.
Ward's poetry collection, Small Boat With Oars of Different Size,
was published in 1999 by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Ward's
poetry chapbook, Tumblekid, the winner of the 1998 Devil's Millhopper
Poetry Contest, was published in 2000 by the University South
Carolina-Aiken. A new collection of poems, Various Orbits, will be
published by Carnegie Mellon this year.
Ward teaches creative writing workshops at elementary and high
schools and through the Writers & Books Literary Center, as well
as tutoring individual students. In 1999 Ward received a writing
fellowship from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.
He is also the recipient of five mini-grants from the New York
Foundation for the Arts, and has served as Chairman of the Literature
panel of the New York State Council on the Arts in 2000 and 2001.
He has given many poetry readings throughout the United States,
and his poems have been published widely in literary journals,
newspapers, and anthologies, including American Poetry: The
Next Generation, which includes the country's leading poets under
age forty. His poetry has been read by Garrison Keillor on Minnesota
Public Radio's The Writer's Almanac. Thom Ward lives with his wife,
three children, two cottonwood trees, a dog, a cat and a fish in
Palmyra, New York.
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