English Professor Norbert Krapf Honored
by Poetry Society of America
Norbert Krapf, an English Professor and Director of the C. W. Post Poetry
Center at Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus in Brookville, has
received the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of
America (PSA) for his poem "Fire and Ice."
The 89th annual awards ceremony of the PSA was held April 23 in the
Celeste Bartos Forum of the New York Public Library. The Lucille Medwick
Memorial Award is given "for an original poem in any form or freedom
on a humanitarian theme." According to judge Toi Derricotte, an African
American poet and author of "The Black Notebooks," a book about
race relations in the U.S., Krapf's poem "tells a haunting, personal
story about a friendship between a black man and a white man that sheds
light on the tragic wounds of a whole generation."
Krapf's 10 poetry collections include "Somewhere in Southern Indiana"
(1993) and "Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany" (1997). He is
the editor of "Finding the Grain," a collection of pioneer German
journals and letters from southern Indiana, and the translator/editor of
the early poems of Rainer Maria Rilke and folktales from his ancestral
Franconia. His "The Sunday before "Thanksgiving: Two Prose Memoirs"
(1998), has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Twice a Senior Fulbright Professor of American Poetry in Germany (Universities
of Freiburg and Erlangen/Nuremberg), Krapf has completed a collection of
poems set on Long Island, "Bittersweet Along the Expressway,"
and a sequel to "Somewhere in Southern Indiana."
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
