George Kalamaras  (with Bootsie in photo),former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014-2016), has published fifteen books of poetry, including Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck (2011), winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize; The Recumbent Galaxy (2010);  and The Theory and Function of Mangoes (2000), winner of the Four Way Books Intro Series. He has received an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission.  He is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.

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