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Joseph Stanton

Joseph Stanton
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Occupation poet, scholar, professor

Joseph Stanton is a Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and a widely published poet.

His poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry East, Harvard Review, Ekphrasis, New York Quarterly, and many other journals and anthologies.

Joseph Charles Stanton, born February 4, 1949 in St. Louis, Missouri, is a poet and a scholar who teaches art history and American studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa where he is a professor. He has published extensively on American art, literature, and culture. One of his special areas of work concerns the intersection of the visual and literary arts. His essays on image-word topics have been appeared in such journals as Art Criticism, American Art, Journal of American Culture, Harvard Library Bulletin, The Lion and the Unicorn, Soundings, Children’s Literature, and Michigan Quarterly Review.

As an art historian, Stanton has published essays on Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Maurice Sendak, Chris Van Allsburg, and many other artists. He has been working for many years on a book on Winslow Homer.

Joseph Stanton’s books of poems include A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban O‘ahu, Cardinal Points, Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, and What the Kite Thinks. He has published more than 300 poems in such journals as Poetry, Harvard Review, Poetry East, The Cortland Review, Ekphrasis, Bamboo Ridge, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Endicott Studio’s Journal of the Mythic Arts, and New York Quarterly. In 2007, Ted Kooser selected one of Stanton’s poems for his “American Life in Poetry” column. Under the guidance of Makoto Ooka, he participated with Wing Tek Lum and others in the collaborative renshi poem What the Kite Thinks.


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