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George K. Karos II was born and raised in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States. He attended public schools until the completion of seventh grade. He then attended and graduated from Saint James School, located in Washington County, Maryland. He received his Bachelor of Arts from West Virginia University in 1991, and his Master of Arts from American University in 1999. For over two decades, George has studied, performed, and worked with numerous arts projects, musical collaborations, and arts-related organizations facilitating various art-mediums and expression as a poet, a magazine columnist and poetry editor, lead singer for rock bands, performance artist, and folk singer. As a solo artist/acoustic guitarist and songwriter, he has toured and performed in musical venues throughout The USA with an emphasis on the regions of his Mid-Atlantic roots. Over the last 20 years, he has had three books of poetry published by Red Dragon Press, been published in over 60 national and international literary publications and included in the Grace Calvelieri Collection donated to the Gelman Library of George Washington University. He has also performed solo performance art works in both improvisational settings in regional art spaces and original music festivals with nationally known artists and music groups. He currently lives in Central where he continues to write record poetry and music, tour, and perform his acoustic music infused with poetry. In this his fourth book, He presents a selection of both new and selected poems.
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