Dream in Which Georgia O’Keeffe Is My Father
Drinking Tea in Mountain Moonlight, Trying to Think Only of Tea
George Kalamaras is former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014–2016). He is the author of twenty-four collections of poetry—fifteen full-length books and nine chapbooks—as well as a critical study on language theory. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he taught for thirty-two years. George and his wife, writer Mary Ann Cain, have nurtured beagles in their home for nearly thirty years, first Barney, then Bootsie, and now Blaisie. George, Mary Ann, and Blaisie divide their time between Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Livermore, Colorado, in the mountains north of Fort Collins. Watch George Kalamaras with the Mikautadze Dance Theatre perform Hound-Dog Beautiful: Poetry and Movement.
Recent titles are: Robert Desnos Finds His Sleep Medicines Beneath Bachelard’s Floorboards (Madhat, 2024), What My Hound Dog Is Scenting Through the Sloughgrass Is a Way of Scenting Me: Poems (Wolfson Press, 2023), and To Sleep in the Horse’s Belly: My Greek Poets and the Aegean Inside Me (Dos Madres Press, 2023).