Joe Survant is Professor Emeritus at Western Kentucky University. He is the author of seven collections of poems, most recently, View from the Stork Building, from Larkspur Press. He is the winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize from the University of Arkansas Press and a recipient of grants from the Kentucky Arts Council, The Asia Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the NEH. Individual poems have been published in Malaysia, China, Japan, Singapore and the U.K., as well as in the U.S. He served as Kentucky's Poet Laureate 2002 – 2004.
