Norbert Krapf
Norbert Krapf was born in 1943 in Jasper, Indiana. He graduated from Jasper High School and received a B.A. in English from St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, IN. He received his M.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame and also his Ph.D. in English and American Literature, with a concentration in American Poetry.
Krapf taught for over 30 years at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University, where he is now emeritus Professor of English, was Poet Laureate 2003-2007 and directed the C. W. Post Poetry Center.
In 2004, he moved from the New York area to Indianapolis to write full-time. Since this move, he has also become a board member of Etheridge Knight, Inc., which promotes the arts for youth, youth at risk, adults, seniors, disabled and incarcerated individuals, and residents traditionally underserved by the arts community.
Krapf has been the recipient of many honors, including the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, an honorary doctorate of letters from St. Joseph's College, the David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching from Long Island University and a Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement from LIU. He has served as Fulbright Professor of American Poetry in Germany at the University of Freiburg and also the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Krapf's poetry collections include Somewhere in Southern Indiana, The Country I Come From, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Looking for God's Country, a recent collaboration with Darryl Jones, Invisible Presence: A Walk through Indiana in Photographs and Poems, and the forthcoming Bloodroot: Indiana Poems (IU Press). His work also includes collaborations with singer-songwriters Kriss Luckett and Greg Ziesemer and jazz pianist and composer Monika Herzig, with whom he released the CD Imagine – Indiana in Music and Poetry. His poem “Back Home” was selected by English artist Martin Donlin to become part of a stained-glass panel he created for installation at the new Indianapolis International Airport.
For more information on Norbert Krapf and his work, visit http://www.krapfpoetry.com/
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