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RESIDENT IN FORT WAYNE FROM 1990
The tie. George Kalamaras came to Fort Wayne in 1990 to teach English at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne and stayed thirty-two years, retiring as professor emeritus at what is now Purdue University Fort Wayne. His is a resident's tie, printed as such: the work was done from a Fort Wayne faculty office, and the state honor came to him here. Since retirement he has removed to Colorado.
The work. Kalamaras served as Poet Laureate of Indiana for 2014–2016. His shelf runs to twenty-seven collections of poetry — among them The Theory and Function of Mangoes (2000), winner of the Four Way Books Intro Series; Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck (2011); and The Mining Camps of the Mouth (2012) — together with a critical study, Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension (1994), and fellowships including a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. His late Fort Wayne book, To Sleep in the Horse's Belly: My Greek Poets and the Aegean Inside Me (Dos Madres Press, 2023) — poems of his Greek family's inheritance, three of his four grandparents having emigrated from Greece — won the 2024 Indiana Book Award in Poetry.
Sources: Publisher and journal biographies (Dos Madres Press; CutBank; Ergon), recording the Indiana laureateship (2014–2016), the Fort Wayne professorship from 1990, thirty-two years of teaching, and the 2024 Indiana Book Award.