David Shumate is an American

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Life

Shumate is the author of three books of prose poems published by the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

Press: ''Kimonos in the Closet'' (2013), ''The Floating Bridge'' (2008) and ''High Water Mark'' (2004), winner of the 2003

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States was initiated by ...

. Shumate's poetry has been anthologized in ''Good Poems for Hard Times,'' ''

The Best American Poetry ''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems. Background The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...

'', and ''The Writer’s Almanac''. He was awarded an

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in poetry in 2009 and a Creative Renewal Fellowship by the Arts Council of Indianapolis in 2007. Shumate is poet-in-residence emeritus at Marian University and a lecturer in

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’s MFA program. He lives in Zionsville,

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Awards

* 2003

* 2005 Best Books of Indiana competition * 2007 Creative Renewal Fellowship-Arts Council of Indianapolis * 2009 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship

Works

"Plum", ''AGNI''
* * * ''Kimonos in the Closet'', University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013

Anthologies

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References

External links

"Interview: David Shumate", ''Erc2008’s Weblog''"David Shumate", ''The Writer's Almanac''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shumate, David Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male poets People from Zionsville, Indiana Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners