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Written by: Laurel Alberson, 260-481-6166

Media contact: George Kalamaras, 260-481-6756

Surrealist Poetry Topic of Spring Distinguished Lecture

(Fort Wayne, March 27, 2007) -- George Kalamaras, an English professor at Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) since 1990, is the Spring 2007 Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer. He will present "The Sacred and the Profane: Surrealist Poetry and the Dissolution of Dichotomy," Tuesday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Classroom-Medical Building, Room 159. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Kalamaras is the recipient of Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Indiana Arts Commission and the first-prize winner of the Abiko Quarterly International Poetry Prize. He is the author of six books of poetry including 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 Award. Several hundred of his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the world.

The lecture, which is part of the IPFW College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer Series, is hosted by the Department of English and Linguistics.

For more information, visit the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecture Series Web site. For a downloadable photo of Kalamaras, visit www.ipfw.edu/news/resources/downloads.

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