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our thomas (haigō of Rod T. Boyer, born April 25, 1971, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.). Holding degrees in classical studies from Dickinson College and the Ohio State University, he is currently Director of Advancement, The Pike School, Exeter, New Hampshire. He is also a mixed-media collage artist and award-winning haikai poet. His work was featured in A New Resonance 13 (2023); shortlisted for the THF Touchstone Award for Individual Poems (2021); a finalist in the inaugural Trailblazer Contest (2021), and an Honorable Mention in the 8th Autumn Moon Haiku Contest, 2021. His poems have been anthologized in the Red Moon Anthology 2021; Shloka Shankar’s Where the Roots Are: Best of Paper Lanterns, vol. 2 (2021); and Kat Lehmann and Robin Smith, eds., Sea Change: An Anthology of Single-Line Poems (2024), a selection from Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem. our thomas currently resides in Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.