George Kalamaras is a Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990, primarily creative writing. He is the author of six books of poetry, the most recent being Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors, Even the Java Sparrows Call Your Hair, Borders My Bent Toward, and The Theory and Function of Mangoes, which won the Four Way Books Intro Series. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry 1997, Hambone, New American Writing, New Letters, Sulfur, TriQuarterly, and others.

All the poems by George Kalamaras that have appeared on Verse Daily:

Books by George Kalamaras: Even the Java Sparrows Call Your Hair, Borders My Bent Toward, The Theory and Function of Mangoes, Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension: Symbolic Form in the Rhetoric of Silence

Other poems on the web by George Kalamaras:
Ten poems
Three poems
"Your Insides Have Some Explaining to Do"
"Azoic Bottom"
"The Common Eating"
"Living in the Material World"
"1956"
Three poems
"At Raj Ghat"
" A Temple Pool Might Ignite Lotus-Blood from Your Heart"
"The Birds Cannot Disappear"
"Mud"
"Woman of Dark Grass"

About Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal:
Poets in this issue: Lane Adamson, Magdalena Alagna, John Thomas Allen, Robyn Alter, David Blaine, Jennifer Pruden Colligan, Chris Crittenden, Elizabeth Crouse, Penny Dyer, Emily East, Amber Flaiz, Jason Fraley, Liz Gallagher, Peter Grieco, Anne Heide, Brandi Homan, David Hurst, Jason Kahler, George Kalamaras, Kit Kennedy, Ted Lardner, George Kalamaras, Christa Mastrangelo, Renee Miller, Shabnam Nadiya, Jane Ormerod, Janet Parkinson, Elizabeth Pavlov, Nathaniel S. Rounds, Luke C Schlueter, Amy Seigel, Regina Smith, David Thornbrugh, Andy Trebing, Jess Wigent, Gary Charles Wilkens, Jack Zall