George Kalamaras

George Kalamaras is an American poet and educator. He is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he has taught since 1990. He has published fifteen collections of poetry, eight of which are full-length, including Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck, the winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize (2011), and The Theory and Function of Mangoes (2000), the winner of the Four Way Books Intro Series. His poetry has been described as Surrealist.

Kalamaras was born in Chicago and grew up in Cedar Lake, Indiana. He earned a PhD in English from University at Albany, SUNY and a master’s in English from Colorado State University.[1]

Between 2014 and 2016 Kalamaras was poet laureate of the American state of Indiana.[2]

Bibliography

Poetry

  • The Theory and Function of Mangoes (Four Way Books 2000)
  • Borders My Bent Toward (Pavement Saw Press 2003)
  • Even the Java Sparrows Call Your Hair (Quale Press 2004)
  • Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors (The Bitter Oleander Press 2008)
  • The Recumbent Galaxy, co-author Alvaro Cardona-Hine (C&R Press 2010)
  • Kingdom of Throat-stuck Luck (Elixir Press 2011)
  • The Hermit's Way of Being Human (CW Books 2015)

Poetry chapbooks

  • The Scathering Sound (Anchorite Press, 2009)
  • Something Beautiful Is Always Wearing the Trees (with paintings by Alvaro Cardona-Hine) (Stockport Flats Press 2009)
  • Mingus Mingus Mingus (pamphlet) (Longhouse 2010)
  • Symposium on the Body's Left Side (Shivastan Press 2011)
  • The Mining Camps of the Mouth (New Michigan Press 2012)

Prose

  • Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension: Symbolic Form in the Rhetoric of Silence (SUNY Press 1994)

Anthologies

  • Visiting Authors, 2006 / Syracuse YMCA Poetry (The Downtown Writer's Center 2006)
  • Mapping The Muse: A Bicentennial Look at Indiana Poetry (Brick Street Poetry Incorporated 2015)

References

  1. ↑ "About". Wabash Watershed. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  2. ↑ IAC: Poet Laureate Biography Archived 2014-01-28 at the Wayback Machine.


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