Small Boat with Oars of Different Size

Small Boat with Oars of Different Size (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) by Thom Ward

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.

Ward's poetry chapbook, Tumblekid, was the winner of the 1998 Devil's Millhopper Poetry Contest and will be published by the University South Carolina-Aiken later this year. Ward also teaches writing workshops at Roberts Wesleyan College, and through The Writers & Books Literary Center. He recently received a writing fellowship from The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts to finish poems for his poetry collection: Among the Scattered Farms: Fifty Poems for Brigham-Smith, and he has been appointed to the Literature Panel of The New York State Council on the Arts for 1999-2000.

Ward is also the recipient of three grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts. His poems have been published widely in journals, anthologies and newspapers. He lives with his wife, three children, two cottonwood trees, a cat, a mouse and a guinea pig in Palmyra, New York.