the Silence of World Is a Fishbone

George Kalamaras, former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014-2016), is Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he taught for thirty-two years. He is the author of twenty-seven books of poetry-eighteen full-length books and nine chapbooks-as well as a critical study on Western language theory and the Eastern wisdom traditions. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Individual Artist Grants from the Indiana Arts Commission, an Indo-U.S. Advanced Research Fellowship (for months of research in India), and-most recently-the 2024 Indiana Book Award for Poetry. He lives with his wife, writer Mary Ann Cain, and their beagle, Blaisie, in Livermore, Colorado, in the mountains northwest of Fort Collins.