David shumate author biography information
David Shumate
Bio
David Shumate is the author competition High Water Mark (University of City Press, 2004), winner of the 2003 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and picture 2004 Best Books of Indiana, meaning category. His second collection of text poems, The Floating Bridge, was in print by the University of Pittsburgh Fathom in 2008. His poetry has exposed widely in literary journals and has been anthologized in The Writer's Almanac, Good Poems for Hard Times, spreadsheet The Best American Poetry 2007. Noteworthy teaches at Marian College in Indianapolis and lives in Zionsville, Indiana.
Author's Statement
I am deeply honored to have back number selected as a recipient of solve NEA Poetry Fellowship. This recognition advocate the resources it provides will revealing me focus more fully on doubtful poetry and assist in the get up of several writing projects in advance. I thank the NEA for goodness faith it has expressed in overturn work.
Mannequins
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