Joseph Stanton


Joseph Stanton is a Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and a widely published poet.
His poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry East, Harvard Review, Ekphrasis, New York Quarterly, Antioch Review, New Letters, and many other journals
and anthologies.

Biography

Joseph Charles Stanton, born February 4, 1949, in St. Louis, Missouri, is a poet and a scholar who taught art history and American studies at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa where he is a Professor Emeritus. 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, , The Lion and the Unicorn, , , and Michigan Quarterly Review. He has also written on baseball topics for such journals as ', ', and .
As an art historian, Stanton has published essays on Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Maurice Sendak, Chris Van Allsburg, Edward Gorey, and many other artists.
Joseph Stanton's books of poems include A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban Oahu, 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 Jean Toyama in the collaborative renshi poem What the Kite Thinks. His next book of poems, Lifelines: Poems for Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper, will be published by Shanti Arts Publishing in 2023.
His 2005 book, The Important Books: Children's Picture Books as Art and Literature, he examines the picture-books of such artist-writers as Maurice Sendak, Chris Van Allsburg, Arnold Lobel, and William Joyce. His 2011 book, Looking for Edward Gorey, is the culmination of his many years of research into all things Gorey. His other books include Prevailing Winds, Moving Pictures, Things Seen, Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban Oahu: Poems, Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball, What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem, Stan Musial: A Biography, and A Hawaii Anthology.

Awards and honors

In 1997, Stanton received the for his contributions to the literature of Hawaii.
In 2010, Stanton received the from the Hawaii Council for the Humanities.
In 2014, he was selected for the Ekphrasis Prize by Ekphrasis magazine.
In 2015, he won the James Vaughan Poetry Award by Hawaii Pacific Review.
In 2018, Stanton was given the Loretta Petrie Award for his contribution to the literary community in Hawaii.
Stanton's , won a Ka Palapala Po'okela Award for excellence in literature. Two of his other books have won honorable mention Ka Palapala Po'okela Awards.
Poems selected for anniversary anthologies: Poetry East, Hawaii Pacific Review, Long Island Quarterly, Bamboo Ridge, First Place, Hawaii Pacific Review Poetry Contest, 1995.
One of the winners of the Poetry on the Bus Competition, sponsored by the Arts Council of Hawaii and the City of Honolulu, 1988.

Books

Poetry collections

Solo Publications
  • ', Shanti Arts Publications, 2023
  • , Shanti Arts Publications, 2022
  • , Shanti Artis Publications, 2019
  • , Brick Road Poetry Press, 2016
  • , Time Being Books, 2006
  • , McFarland and Company, 2002
  • , Time Being Books, 1999
Collaborative Book
  • , University of Hawaii, 1994
Anthologies and Collections'
  • , Island Sound Press, 2022
  • , ed. by Nicholas Fargnoli and Robert Hamblin, 2021
  • , ed. by Alice Kociemba, Robin Smith-Johnson, and Rich Youmans, 2021
  • , Great Books Foundation, 2017
  • , ed. by Kathaleen Donnelly, 2022, 2013, and 2009
  • , ed. by Gabriel Fried, Persea Books, 2014
  • edited by Madelyn Garner and Andrea Watson, 2010
  • , ed. by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking-Penguin, 2009
  • , ed. By Kathaleen Donnelly, Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009
  • , ed. Craig Howes and Susan Yim, 2008
  • , ed. Gavan Daws, 2008
  • , ed. Gilbert L. Gigliotti. Washington D.C.: Entasis Press, 2007
  • "Gondola Signore Gondola": Venezia nella poesia americana del Novecento, ed. and trans. Mamoli Zorzi Rosella, Supernova Edizioni, 2007
  • , ed. James Vlaisch, McFarland, 2006
  • , ed. Diane DeCillis and Mary Jo Gillet, 2005
  • , ed. Brook Horvath and Tim Wiles, 2001
  • , ed. Jill Carpenter, 1998
  • , ed. Sue Cowing, Honolulu Museum of Art, 1996
  • Dumb Beautiful Ministers, ed. William Heyen, Birnham Wood Graphics, 1996.
  • In Autumn: A Collection of Long Island Poetry'', ed. George Wallace, Birnham Wood Press, 1994
  • , ed. by Eric Chock and Darrell Lum, Bamboo Ridge Press, 1986

    Scholarly Books

  • , University of Hawaii Art Gallery, 2011
  • , Greenwood Press, 2007
  • , Scarecrow Press, 2005
Books Edited
  • ,, University of Hawaii Press, 2000
  • , University of Hawaii Press, 1997
  • The Ten Rules of Fishing,, Bamboo Ridge Press, 1985
  • , 1983

    Joseph Stanton's work online

Baseball poems

  • Poems about Hawaii

  • featured by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate

  • Poems on Art

  • Fairy Tale Poems

  • Collection of Fairy Tale poems on

    Poems on Movies and Music

  • Poems on Writers and Writing

Category:American male poets
Category:1949 births
Category:Living people