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 Joe Survant is a native of
Owensboro. After earning a bachelor's degree in English from the University of
Kentucky, he completed his doctorate at the University of Delaware, focusing on
modern literature. In 1970, Survant returned to Kentucky to take a position at
Western Kentucky University; he was promoted to Professor in 1983. Survant
spent a year as a Fulbright Professor from 1983-84 at the Universiti Sains
Malaysia in Pinang, Malaysia. He served as Director of the Creative Writing
Program from 1994-2002.
Survant is the author of We Will All Be Changed,
Anne and Alpheus, 1842-1882, winner of the 1995 Arkansas Poetry Prize, and
The Presence of Snow in the Tropics. In 1999, Rafting Rise, a
collection of narrative poems set in the Green River Basin in 1916, was a
finalist for the Brittingham Prize at the University of Wisconsin Press. In
1997, Survant was a finalist for the Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry
Society of America. In 1991, he won a Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship
in Poetry, and in 1998, he received a Commendation in the (London) Daily
Telegraph-Arvon International Poetry Competition.
Survant's poetry has appeared in such magazines as
"Prairie Schooner", "The American Voice", "Chelsea", "Poet & Critic",
"Strand Magazine", "The Columbia Review", "Cincinnati Poetry Review", "Nimrod",
"Hellas", "Exquisite Corpse" and "The Sow's Ear Poetry Review".
Survant’s work has been published in various
anthologies, including Puddingstone Press Fresh Water, Kentucky Philological
Review, Sutton (London) Press The Ring of Words, National Poetry Competition
Anthology, Down the River: A Collection of Ohio Valley Fiction & Poetry,
and Kentucky Renaissance; An Anthology of Contemporary Writing, published by
Gnomon Press.
Survant has sustained a record of distinguished
achievement in teaching, service, research, and creative activity both within
and outside of Kentucky. He has given readings of his poetry throughout
Kentucky and as far afield as Western Michigan University and the National
University of Singapore.
Survant’s nomination for selection as Kentucky
Poet Laureate was made by Richard Taylor, Professor of English at Kentucky
State University and former Kentucky Poet Laureate.
Survant resides in
Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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