Stanley H. Barkan

N/A

Merrick, NY 11566-4725

Phone:

516-868-5635

E-mail:

cccpoetry@aol.com

Website:

www.cross-culturalcommunications.com

Author's Bio

Stanley H. Barkan, the poet/translator/editor/publisher of the Cross-Cultural Review Series of World Literature and Art, has, till 2016, his 46th anniversary year, produced some 425 titles in 58 different languages. His own work has been translated into 26 different languages, and published in 19 collections, several of them bilingual (Bulgarian, Chinese, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Sicilian). In 2006, He was invited to be the first solo featured poet at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales, by Peter Thabit Jones, poet/editor of The Seventh Quarry. He lives with his artist wife, Bebe, in Merrick, Long Island, near his son and daughter and five grandchildren. www.cross-culturalcommunications.com Profile: www.thedrunkenboat.com (Summer 2002 Issue) Video: www.Poetryvlog.com Reviews: www.thepedestalmagazine (Apr 21-Jun 21, 2010, Issue 57, Reviews) Interview: http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-1JanFeb2012/Skechbook_71_JanFeb_2012_Global_Correspondent_Helen_Bar-Lev_Snow_and_Voices_Activiies.htm Link: IMMAGINE&POESIA

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won:

1991 NYC Poetry Teacher of the Year (awarded by the Board of Ed and Poets House) 1996 Poor Richard's Award, a bust of Benjamin Franklin, The Best of the Small Presses, "for 25 years of high quality publishing," from the Small Press Center in New York 1998 Award for Poetry from the Brandeis National Women’s Association 2011 Plaque Award "in sincere appreciation of 40 years of success in the Art of Publishing from the Creative Arts Department, Siena College, NY 2011 Plaque Award “for [Stanley Barkan's] contribution to the promotion of the globalization of Korean literature through exchanges of Korean and American poetry” from the Korean Expatriate Literature Association, L.A. 2011 The Paterson Literary Review (PLR) Award "for Lifetime Service to Literature" Stanley H. Barkan Special Issue April 2014, Swansea Poetry Magazine 2015 L'Occhio di Scammacca" (sculpture) Sicilian award 2016 Homer: European Medal of Poetry and Art

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Nostalgia: Poems by Chung Ji-yong by Translated by Sung-Il Lee

If This Be Treason by Gregory Rabassa

The Candle by William Heyen

Reviews, Recordings, and Interviews

Poetryvlog (Poetryvlog)

The Drunken Boat (The Drunken Boat)

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Jewish

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Brooklyn

Raised in:

Brooklyn, NY

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Last updated: Jun 13, 2017