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Norbert Krapf Earns Trustees Award for
Scholarly Achievement
July 6, 2000 - Norbert Krapf, a Roslyn Heights resident, was
recently awarded a Long Island University Trustees Award for
Scholarly Achievement (TASA) at the 22nd annual awards ceremony.
The TASA Award is bestowed in recognition of the professional
contributions of Long Island University's professors throughout
its six campuses in the New York metropolitan area. Professor
Krapf teaches English and has directed the C.W. Post Poetry Center
at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville,
N.Y., since 1985.
Krapf, who grew up in southern Indiana, has published 16 books
since 1976, 10 of which are collections of his own poetry. His
most recent poetry volumes are Somewhere in Southern Indiana
and Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany, which features
a section about World War II and the Holocaust. The Indianapolis
Star has said, "In half a lifetime of writing history
and poetry about the Catholic communities of the Jasper, Indiana
area and their antecedents, Krapf has shown a sense of place
and ethnic identity that radiates out to universal brotherhood."
Tracing his own family's history , Krapf published Finding
the Grain, an expanded edition of German immigrant letters
and journals that he worked on for more than 20 years. He is
the editor/translator of Beneath the Cherry Sapling, 52
legends set in his ancestral region of northern Bavaria, and
Shadows on the Sundial, poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. He
is also the editor of Under Open Sky, a reappraisal of
the American nature poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant,
who lived in Roslyn from 1843 to 1878.
Krapf's newest book, Bittersweet Along the Expressway:
Poems of Long Island will be released by Waterline Books
on Labor Day. Its cover features a 1932 woodcut of downtown Roslyn
by Henry R. Diamond. In coordination with an exhibit of Diamond's
Roslyn woodcuts, Krapf will read from and sign copies of the
new collection at the Bryant Library in Roslyn on October 22.
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.
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