Visiting Poets
Karen Kovacik & David Shumate
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Thursday, March 16
7:00 p.m. in Bracken 225
KAREN KOVACIK lived in Warsaw from 1985 through 1987, and has published translations of contemporary Polish poetry in American Poetry Review and Poetry East. In 1998, her chapbook Nixon and I was published by Kent State University Press, and a full-length collection, Beyond the Velvet Curtain, winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, was published by Kent State in 1999. Her new book of poetry, Metropolis Burning, was published by Cleveland State University Press in 2005. She is the recipient of a number of awards, and her poems and stories have appeared in many journals, including Salmagundi, Chelsea, Glimmer Train, Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, and Crab Orchard Review. She is Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis.
DAVID SHUMATE lives in Zionsville, Indiana. His prose poems have appeared widely in literary journals including North America Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, Maize, Southern Indiana Review and Prairie Schooner. His book of prose poems, High Water Mark, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004) was awarded the 2003 Agnes Lynch Starrett prize for first books and received first place in the poetry category of the “Best Books of Indiana competition of 2005.” His work has also been featured on Garrison Keillor’s NPR program, The Writer’s Almanac, and in Good Poems for Hard Times.
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Sponsored by Creative Writing in the Department of English in Cooperation with 401 Poetry Group.