Below Buffalo Willows
Give us a kiss. Goodbye, dear. The buffalo willows were full of hurt, and then the fire died. Kiss...
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George Kalamaras
George Kalamaras, Poet Laureate of Indiana, is the author of seven books of poetry and seven chapbooks, including The Mining Camps of the Mouth (2012), winner of the New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest, Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck (2011), winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize, and The Theory and Function of Mangoes (2000), winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry (on two occasions), Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New Letters, North American Review, and many other anthologies and journals. He is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990.
George Kalamaras, Poet Laureate of Indiana, is the author of seven books of poetry and seven chapbooks, including The Mining Camps of the Mouth (2012), winner of the New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest, Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck (2011), winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize, and The Theory and Function of Mangoes (2000), winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry (on two occasions), Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New Letters, North American Review, and many other anthologies and journals. He is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990.
Posts by George Kalamaras
Letter to Megan From Rifle
I promised I couldn’t write away the violence of guns, though I’d try. No one can right what’s...
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Letter to Lawler from Fort Collins
Morning headlines confide, “Anchor breaks down over verdict,” “Anniston flaunts bikini bod,”...
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Dejected in Boulder, I Think of James Wright’s “Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me”
That dream again where Yuan Mei and I are brothers, then married to one another, though not...
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Letter to Sue From Durango
I don’t recall the town’s name, Sue, though it likely had Colorado’s best café pie. Mary Ann and I...
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