Aliki Barnstone

Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, memoirist, critic, editor, and visual artist. Her first book of poems, The Real Tin Flower (Crowell-Collier, 1968), was published when she was 12 years old, with a foreword by Anne Sexton. In 2014, Carnegie-Mellon University Press published her book, Madly in Love, in the Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporaries Series, which reissues the early work of America's important poets. Among her other six books of poetry are Dear God Dear, Dr. Heartbreak: New and...See more

Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, memoirist, critic, editor, and visual artist. Her first book of poems, The Real Tin Flower (Crowell-Collier, 1968), was published when she was 12 years old, with a foreword by Anne Sexton. In 2014, Carnegie-Mellon University Press published her book, Madly in Love, in the Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporaries Series, which reissues the early work of America's important poets. Among her other six books of poetry are Dear God Dear, Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2009), Bright Body (White Pine, 2011), and Dwelling (Sheep Meadow, 2016). She translated The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy (W.W. Norton, 2006). Her translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Triquarterly, and elsewhere. The co-founder and former series editor of the Cliff Becker Book Award in Translation, she served twice as a translation judge for the National Endowment for the Arts. Liana Sakelliou's translation of Barnstone's Eva's Voice into Greek is forthcoming in a bilingual edition with Vakhikon Editions in Athens. She edited A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (Schocken,1980; 2nd edition, 1992) and the Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry (Shambhala, 2002). Her criticism includes the introduction and readers' notes for H.D.'s Trilogy, co-editing The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era, and her study, Changing Rapture: The Development of Emily Dickinson's Poetry (University Press of New England, 2007). She has been awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in Greece, the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and residencies at the Anderson Center at Tower View and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is Professor of English at the University of Missouri and served as poet laureate of Missouri from 2016-2019. See less