Guest Author

Aliki Barnstone - Poet - Translator - Critic - Editor - English Professor

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Alas  (From the forthcoming chapbook, Winter with Child, 2014)

Take a Deep Breath  (Bright Body - White Pine Press, 2011)

With God in the Morning  (Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems - Sheep Meadow Press, 2009)

Artist for BIRD LIGHT by Elizabeth Cohen (A creative collaboration between two friends.)

Aliki Barnstone - Madly in Love

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Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. Her books of poems are, Bright Body (White Pine, 2011) and Dear God Dear, Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2009), 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 (Crowell-Collier, 1968), her first book of poems, which was published when she was 12 years old, with a forward by Anne Sexton. In 2014, Carnegie-Mellon University Press will reissue her book, Madly in Love, as a Carnegie-Mellon Classic Contemporary. 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.'sTrilogy (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. Among her awards are a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in Greece (to research and write a sequence of poems in the voice of an imaginary poet, Eva Victoria Perera, a Sephardic Jew from Thessaloniki, who survives the Holocaust), the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry, and a residency at the Anderson Center at Tower View. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she serves as Series Editor of the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation.    

http://english.missouri.edu/graduate-and-doctoral-faculty/118-barnstone.html

http://www.alikibarnstone.com/Aliki_Barnstone/Home.html

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Saint Julian Press presents an Evening of Poetry and Music on April 4, 2014

HOUSTON – February 1, 2014 – Poets and writers Aliki Barnstone, Leslie Adrienne Miller, and Melissa Studdard will be joined by special guest Donna McKenzie and composer/pianist John Hardesty for “An Evening of Poetry and Music” at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman Street at Main, on April 4, 2014 from 7-9 PM.

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