Joe Survant

 

Joe Survant is Professor Emeritus of English at Western Kentucky University.  He is the author of seven collections of poems, most recently, The Stone, from Accents Publishing.  He is the winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize from the University of Arkansas Press for Anne & Alpheus, 1842-1882, the first book of his Kentucky trilogy, The Land We Dreamed. He has received grants from the Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Humanities, The Asia Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the NEH.  Individual poems have been published in Malaysia, China, Japan, Singapore, as well as widely in the U.S.  He served as Kentucky’s Poet Laureate 2002-04.