ALIKI BARNSTONE
Presentation:
- «Creative Writing Seminars in the U.S. and my Poetry» (Spring Semester 2011)
Aliki Barnstone (Ph.D. University of California at Berkely) is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. Her books of poems are Blue Earth(Iris, 2004), Wild With It (Sheep Meadow, 2002), a National Books Critics Circle Notable Book, Madly in Love (Carnegie-Mellon, 1997),Windows in Providence (Curbstone, 1981), and The Real Tin Flower (which was introduced by Anne Sexton and was published by Macmillan in 1968, when she was twelve years old). Other books are The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation (W.W. Norton, 2006) and Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Development (University Press of New England, 2007). She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize twice. She edited A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (Schocken, 1980; second edition, 1992), The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era (University Press of New England, 1997), The Shambhala Anthology of Women’s Spiritual Poetry (Shambhala, 1999; 2003), and she introduced and wrote the readers’ notes for H.D.’s Trilogy (New Directions, 1998). Her poems and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, New Letters, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has recorded a collaborative CD with musician Frank Haney. Barnstone spent the fall of 2006 in Greece as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. Her Fulbright project is a sequence of poems, "Eva's Voice," in the voice of an imaginary poet, Eva Victoria Perera, a Sephardic Jew from Thessaloniki, who survives the Holocaust. "Eva's Voice" will appear as a section in Barnstone's Dr. God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems, which is forthcoming with the Sheep Meadow Press.