Events

Sunday July 18 3pm
FREE

George Kalamaras
&
Alvaro Cardoza-Hine

George Kalamaras is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including five chapbooks. His most recent book is The Recumbent Galaxy (co-authored with Alvaro Cardona-Hine), which won the C&R Press Open Competition and which includes six of Cardona-Hine's paintings. Other titles include, Something Beautiful Is Always Wearing the Trees (Stockport Flats, 2009), George's poems with paintings by Cardona-Hine, Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2008), Borders My Bent Toward (Pavement Saw Press, 2003), and The Theory and Function of Mangoes (Four Way Books, 2000). He is the recipient of Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1993) and the Indiana Arts Commission (2001), and first prize in the 1998 Abiko Quarterly International Poetry Prize (Japan). During 1994, he spent several months in India on an Indo-U.S. Advanced Research Fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation and the Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture. 

Alvaro Cardona-Hine is a poet, painter, composer, and translator. Born in 1926 in Costa Rica, he came to the United States in 1939. Since 1945, when he began writing poetry, he has written seventeen books, including a memoir, Thirteen Tangos For Stravinsky, (Sherman Asher Publishing, 1999) and Spring Has Come, translations of pre-Renaissance Spanish poetry (La Alameda Press, 1999). Other titles include The Gathering Wave, (Alan Swallow Publisher, 1961), Agapito (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969), and Four Poems About Sparrows (Eyelight Press, 1994). A History of Light (Sherman Asher Publishing, 1998) was named a Small Press Book Award Finalist for 1998. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1978), a Bush Foundation Fellowship (1978), and a Minnesota State Arts Board Individual Artist Grant (1982). His plays, music, texts for music, and paintings have been viewed and heard in numerous venues, including one-man and group shows of his art in California, Connecticut, Florida, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. He lives in Truchas, where he and his wife Barbara own and operate the Cardona-Hine Gallery.