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David Shumate is an American poet.
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David Shumate is an American poet.
Shumate is the author of three books of prose poems published by the University of Pittsburgh Press: Kimonos in the Closet (2013), The Floating Bridge (2008) and High Water Mark (2004), winner of the 2003 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.
Shumate's poetry has been anthologized in Good Poems for Hard Times, The Best American Poetry , and The Writer’s Almanac. He was awarded an NEA Fellowship 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 Butler University’s MFA program. He lives in Zionsville, Indiana.
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