Celebrate National Poetry Month with ACPL in this virtual workshop. Former Indiana Poet Laureate (2014-2016) George Kalamaras will instruct you on how to find\, develop\, and share your poet ic voice. \;
\nGeorge Kalamaras\, former Poet Laureate of Indian a (2014&ndash\;2016)\, is Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue Universi ty Fort Wayne\, where he taught for thirty-two years. He is the author of twenty-three collections of poetry&mdash\;fourteen full-length books and n ine chapbooks\, and he has published more than 1\,300 poems in magazines a nd anthologies. In addition to his publications in the United States\, his poems have appeared in print journals in Africa\, Asia\, Europe\, and Lat in America and have been translated into Bengali and Spanish.
\nOne of George&rsquo\;s greatest loves is hound dogs! In fact\, his next book o f poems\, which will appear later this spring\, focuses entirely on hound dogs. George and his wife\, Mary Ann Cain (also a fellow writer and Profes sor Emeritus at PFW)\, have nurtured beagles in their home for nearly thir ty years\, first Barney\, then Bootsie\, and now Blaisie.
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