George Kalamaras, poet laureate of Indiana, is the author of fourteen books of poetry, seven of which are full-length, including Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck, winner of the 2011 Elixir Press Poetry Prize. His video series, “A Gray Barn Rising,” in which he reads and comments on the work of various poets, can be found at his laureate web site, The Wabash Watershed. He is a professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990.