Indiana Poet Laureate Karen Kovacik
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, at 11 AM
Y Jean Chambers Hall, 353 Student Union & Library Building
Purdue University Calumet
2200 169th Street, Hammond, IN
Reading is free and open to the public
Karen Kovacik, author of Metropolis Burning and three previous poetry collections, received the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum and a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, among other awards. She earned a Fulbright Research Grant to Poland and a literary translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts; her contemporary Polish poetry translations have since appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Crazyhorse, Southern Review and APR. Karen is Director of Creative Writing and a Professor of English at IUPUI.
Event is being sponsored by the Department of English & Philosophy
with The Writing Center at PUC and First Friday Wordsmiths
