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Celebrate Poetry Month with Poet in Residence: BOA Editions Editor Thom Ward


Come celebrate poetry month on Wednesday, April 23 from 12 to 1pm in the MCC Theatre. Poet in Residence 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 translation.

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 of South Carolina-Aiken. A new collection of poems, Various Orbits, will be published by Carnegie Mellon in 2003.

This event is free and open to the public.

Janet Ekis
Public Affairs
03/24/2003