Aliki Barnstone

Teaching Areas:

Creative Writing, Poetry, American Literature

Aliki Barnstone was educated at Brown University (B.A., 1980; M.A., 1983) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1995). Her most recent book of poems, Madly in Love (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her poems have appeared or will appear in Agni, The Antioch Review, Boulevard, Chicago Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, TriQuarterly, and other journals. She introduced and wrote the readers' notes for H.D.'s Trilogy (New Directions, 1998) and is the editor of the poetry anthologies, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (Schocken/ Random House, 1992) and Voices of Light: Spiritual and Visionary Poems by Women from Around the World from Ancient Sumeria to Now(Shambhala, 2000), and a collection of critical essays, The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era (University Press of New England, 1997). She has published essays on Emily Dickinson, Mary Wilkins Freeman, H.D., Ruth Stone, Brenda Hillman, and others. Her study, A Changing Rapture: The Development of Emily Dickinson's Poetry, is forthcoming with University Press of Florida.

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EDUCATION

Ph.D.: University of California, English, Berkeley, 1995
M.A.: Brown University, English, with honors, 1983
Middlebury College, Spanish Language Summer School, 1980
B.A.: Brown University, Semiotics, with honors, 1980

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, International MFA Program, Department of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,1999-present
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of South Dakota, 1998-1999
Assistant Professor, Stadler Center for Poetry, Department of English, Bucknell University 1993-1998
Writer-in-Residence, Villanova University, Spring 1996
Visiting Assistant Professor, Marquette University 1991-1992
Visiting Assistant Professor, Beloit College 1990-1991
As a graduate student at various ranks, University of California, Berkeley 1985-1990,
UC Santa Cruz 1982-1983

TRAVEL

Greece (every summer), Spain (1 year), Mexico, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Cyprus, Turkey, Canada, Hong Kong, China (including Tibet and Turkestan), Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Italy, England.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Voices of Light: Spiritual and Visionary Poems by Women Around the World from Ancient Sumeria to Now (poetry anthology), Shambhala Publications, 2000, 287 pp.
An annotated edition of H.D.'s Trilogy, with a critical introduction. New Directions Books, 1998.
Madly in Love (poems). Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon, 1997, 67 pp. (Nominated in 1997 for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.)
An annotated edition of H.D.'s Trilogy, with a critical introduction. New Directions Books, 1998.
The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era (critical essays), edited with Michael Tomasek Manson & Carol J. Singley. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997. 317 pp.
A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now. (poetry anthology), edited with Willis Barnstone. New York: Schocken/Random House, First Edition. 1980. 640 pp. Second Revised & Expanded Edition, 1992. 822 pp.
Windows in Providence (poems). New York/Austin: Curbstone, 1981. 54 pp.
The Real Tin Flower (poems). Introd. Anne Sexton. New York: Macmillan, 1968. 64 pp.

(Forthcoming Book)

A Changing Rapture: The Development of Emily Dickinson's Poetry. University Press of Florida, 2000.

POEMS IN PERIODICALS & NEWSPAPERS

“Rowing on Lake Mendota,” Green Mountains Review, forthcoming.
“At a Truckstop in Gyantse, Tibet,” ONTHEBUS, forthcoming.
“Dream with Billy Holiday,” Triquarterly, forthcoming.
“Sadness,” The New England Review, forthcoming.
“Cavafy in the Early Morning,” “Cavafy's Ghost Meets Me at my Mailbox at Bucknell University,” “Days of 1974,”Luna, forthcoming.
“First Memory,” “The Black Room, Witness, (in a special issue on the American family), forthcoming.
“You Open Your Hands,” Ploughshares, Winter 1999-00, Vol. 25, No. 4. 45-46.
“With Walt Whitman on the Staten Island Ferry,” “A Night Rome,” “Wavelength Revelation,” New Letters, Vol. 66, No.1/1999, 23-29.
“Inevitable Move,” “The Dog,” The Southern Review, Autumn, 1999. Vol. 34, No 4. 659-661.
“Streetnames,” Prairie Schooner, Vol. 73, No. 2, Summer 1999. 174.
“Purple Crocuses,” Southwest Review, Vol. 84, No 3, 1999. 350.
“Tending,” The Literary Review, Vol. 42, No. 4 , Summer 1999. 533.
“Blue,”Manoa, 11:1, 1999. 82-83.
“The Irises of the Midwest,” The Partisan Review/2, 1999. 297.
“Months in the Frozen World, Boulevard, Vol. 14, Nos. 1 & 2, Fall, 1998. 18-19.
“Blue Earth,” “Counting Time on Kimolos,” The Malahat Review, No 123 / June 1998.
“The Train to the Millenium,” New Letters, Vol. 63. No. 4. 1997. 119-121.
“Bright Snow,” “The Suicides,” American Literary Review, Vol. 7. No.2. 1997. 152-155.
“Dream of Orchids,” “The Bath,” American Literary Review. Vol. 7. No.1. Spring 1996. 168-172.
“Floating through Austin with Liz,” Exquisite Corpse 58. 1996. 36.
“Hallways," "Blue Fish / Sun Fish,” The Formalist. Vol 6. No 1. 1995. 7, 86.
“On the Hottest San Francisco Day in Recorded History, He Plays Piano and She Listens,” The Antioch Review. Vo. 53, No.1 Winter 1995.
"The Bell," "Greek Easter," Prairie Schooner. Fall 1994. 84-87.
"Spirals," Chicago Review (in a special issue on popular culture), Vol. 40, Nos. 2 &3. Fall 1994. 119-120.
"The Cypress Trees of Mount Pelion," "From His Hotel Room in Paris," Exquisite Corpse. No. 45, 1994. 29.
"Blue Room, Blue Horse," Artful Dodge. 24-25. 1993. 102-103.
"Brothers," Graham House Review. No.17. Fall 1993. 35.
"A Declining Neighborhood," Agni 38. Fall 1993. 77-78.
"Heart Murmur," Occident. Vol. CIII. No. 1. 1990 . 318-319.
"Imperative," "Sensual Pleasure That Is Achieved Morbidly, Corruptingly," Berkeley Poetry Review 20. Fall 1988. 39-40.
"One Day," "Fish House." Berkeley Poetry Review 18 & 19. 1985-1986 , 94-5.
"Night Rain." Quarry West 19. 1984. 74.
"Shoe Sounds," "At the Blue Tent Cafe." Kentucky Poetry Review. Vol 20, No. 2, Fall. 41.17
"A Dancer Meets Her Muse in a Bar." College English. Vol. 42, No. 2. 152.
"Mating the Goats." Chicago Review, Vol 31, No. 3, Winter 1980. 38.
"Mating the Goats." Sun, Vol IV., No. 3, Winter 1979-80. 232.
"A Letter from the Hotel," "The Star and the Fencer," "To a Friend's Child." New Letters, Vol. 44, No. 2, Dec. 1977. 23-26.
"Churches." College English, Vol 35, No. 3, Winter 1975. 43.
"Brushing My Teeth," "Numbers," "The Big Paper Daisy," "Distant Color," "Robby,"
"Explanations," "On Memorial Day," "The War." Ms. March 1975. 69-72.
"The Sun Made Life." New York Times, May 3, 1973. 17.
"Untitled." Icarus 1, No 1, Summer 1973. 17.
"When You Pour Milk," "Alice in Wonderland in the Looking Glass." Teen. July, 1969. 42.
"Explanations." "Brushing My Teeth," "The Poem Is," "The Sun Is Very Kind." Read, Feb. 15, 1969. 24-29.
"Blue Is Greece." Riverside Chronicle, Nov. 14, 1968. C-1.
"Blue Is Greece." Poetry. Vol. 112, No. 4, July 1968. 242.
"Blue Is Greece." Christian Science Monitor, July 21, 1967. 6.

POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS IN ANTHOLOGIES

“From his Hotel Room in Paris,” in Thus Spake the Corpse: And Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1988-1998, edited by Andrei Codresu and Laura Rosenthal, Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1999.
“Inanna and the Divine Essences," Inanna and An," "Inanna and Enlil, Inanna and Ishkur," "Inanna and the Anunna," "Inanna and Ebih,"Banishment from Ur," "Condemning the Moongod Nanna," "Final Prayer," Enheduanna (adapted from Sumerian),"She Attempts to Refute the Praises That Truth, Which She Calls Passion, Inscribed on a Portrait of the Poet," "In Which She Satisfies a Fear with the Rhetoric of Tears," She Proves the Inconsistency of the Desires and Criticism of Men Who Accuse Women of What They Themselves Cause," Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Spanish), "I Am Going to Sleep (Suicide Poem)," Alfonsina Storni (Spanish), "Nothing," Julia de Burgos (Spanish), “Windows,” “Desires,” “The God Abandons Anthony, C. P. Cavafy (Moden Greek), translations in Literatures of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Eds.Tony Barnstone and Willis Barntone. New York: Simon & Schuster, forthcoming 1998. "Winter and War on Lake Monona" (poem), in A Glass of Green Tea--with Honig. (See heading “Articles and Essays.”)
"I Am Going to Sleep (Suicide Poem)," translation from Spanish, Alfonsina Storni, in The HarperCollins World Reader, Eds. Mary Ann Caws & Christopher Prendergast. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. 2245.
"To a Friend's Child." In Poets from A to Z. Ed. David Ray. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1980. 10.
"Numbers." In Zero Makes Me Hungry: A Collection of Poems for Today. Eds. Edward Lueder and Primus St. John. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1976. 139
"Sing." In The Arts and Skills of English 4. Ed. Owen Thomas. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. 156.
"Bubblegum." In The Arts and Skills of English 3. Ed. Owen Thomas. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. 156.

PUBLISHED TRANSLATIONS

My translations of Enheduanna (Sumerian), Hepsheput (Egyptian), Rabia the Mystic (Basian), Kassia (Ancient Greek), Sulpicia (Latin), Louise Labe (French), Anne Hebert (French), Rosalia de Castro (Spanish), Hildegard of Bingen (German), Sun Buer (Chinese), Muktabai (Indian), Beatrice of Nazareth(Belgian), Marguerite Porete (French), Bibi Hayati (Persian), Claribel Alegria (Spanish) Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Spanish), Alfonsina Storni (Spanish), Julia de Burgos (Spanish), Nelly Sachs (German) and Edith S–dergran (Swedish) will appear in Voices of Light: An Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry from Around the World.
My translations of Enheduanna (adapted from Sumerian), Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Spanish), Alfonsina Storni (Spanish), Julia de Burgos (Spanish), C. P. Cavafy (Modern Greek) appear in Literatures of Asia, Africa,and Latin America, Eds. Tony Barnstone and Willis Barntone, New York: Simon & Schuster, forthcoming 1995. (A complete list of poems is listed under the heading "Anthologies.").
Alfonsina Storni (Spanish), in The HarperCollins World Reader. (See heading “Anthologies.”)
My translations of Enheduanna (Sumerian), Kassia (Ancient Greek), Sulpicia(Latin), Louise Labe (French), Anne Hebert (French), Rosalia de Castro (Spanish), Claribel Alegria (Spanish), Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Spanish), Alfonsina Storni (Spanish), and Julia de Burgos (Spanish) appear in A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now.

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

“`The Blank Pages of the Unwritten Volume of the New': Crisis and Revisionary Theology in H.D.'s Trilogy and Brenda Hillman's Death Tractates,” in No Rule of Procedure: H.D. and Poets After . Ed. Donna Hollenberg, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, forthcoming.
"Mastering the Master: Emily Dickinson's Appropriation of Crisis Conversion" in The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era. (See heading “Books.”)
"'Who is the Widow's Muse?': A Memoir and Reading of Ruth Stone" in The House is Made of Poetry: Essays on the Art of Ruth Stone. Eds. Wendy Barker and Sandra M. Gilbert. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP. 1996. 163-179. (Part of the series Ad Feminitam: Women and Literature. Sandra M. Gilbert, Series Editor.)
"How Edwin Inspired ''Winter and War on Lake Monona'" (short essay) in A Glass of Green Tea --with Honig,. Eds. Susan Brown, Thomas Epstein, & Henry Gould. Providence, RI: Apephoe Books: 1994. 309-313.
"Houses within Houses: Emily Dickinson and Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'A New England Nun.'" Centenniel Review. Fall, 1984. 129-145.
"Houses within Houses: Emily Dickinson and Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'A New England Nun.'" Part One of this article, the part that deals with Freeman appears in a book entitled Mary Wilkins Freeman: A Study of the Short Fiction . Ed. Mary R. Reichardt. New York: Twayne / Macmillan, 1997.
"Voices in the Garden: Andrew Marvell, Emilia Lanier and Emily Dickinson," in Men by Women. Ed. Janet Todd. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1982. 147-67.

PAPERS AND TALKS PRESENTED

“`The Blank Pages of the Unwritten Volume of the New': Crisis and Revisionary Theology in H.D.'s Trilogy and Brenda Hillman's Death Tractates,” on the panel entitled “H.D. and Poets After” with Kathleen Fraser, Elizabeth Frost, and Donna Hollenberg, American Literature Association, San Diego, 1996.
“`The Blank Pages of the Unwritten Volume of the New': Crisis and Revisionary Theology in H.D.'s Trilogy and Brenda Hillman's Death Tractates” in the special session entitled “History, Ecstasy, and Lyric Subjectivity,” with Maria Damon, Lesley Wheeler, and Kathleen Crown. Modern Laguage Association, Washington, D.C., 1996.
"An Ecstacy of Woe: Pain and Beauty in Poetry" a Religious Studies Forum in the series entitled "Traumatic Grace: When Pain and Spiritual Beauty Are Conjoined," Bucknell University, 1994.
"Mastering the Master: Self Conversion in Emily Dickinson's Poems 1861-1863" in the special session entitled "Conversion, Election and Judgment: The Calvinist Roots of Moderism," with Michael T. Manson, Carol J. Singley, and Anne Winters, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 1991.

INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS AND ARTICLES ABOUT MY WORK

I read poetry from my book, Madly in Love, and discuss love poetry on NPR's “What's the Word?” hosted by Sally Placksin. This special edition of “What's the Word?” which focuses on love poetry, was sponsored by the MLA. February 14, 1998.
Review of Madly in Love, Publisher's Weekly. March 31 1997. 70.
“A Child Prodigy Becomes an `Adult' Poet” by Peter Monahan in The Chronicle of Higher Education , July 3, 1997 Vol., XLIII, No. 43. B8-B9.
Earlier reviews and articles appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, Time, Writer's Digest, Publisher's Weekly and other journals.
I have been interviewed on “All Things Considered,” “Voice of America,” and other radio and television programs.

LIBRARIES

The Lilly Rare Book Library of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, has acquired my work drafts since the publication of The Real Tin Flower in 1968.

HONORS AND PRIZES

Nominee for Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Madly in Love, 1977 (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997).
Pushcart Prize nomination for my poem "Spirals" (Chicago R eview).
Eisner Prize in Poetry from University of California, Berkeley, for Creative Achievement of the Highest Order in Literature, Poetry,1989.
Emily Chamberlain Cook in Poetry, 1989.
Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in Lyric Poetry, 1989.
Galbraith Memorial Prize of the Academy of American Poets, Honorable Mention, 1989.
Chester H. Jones Prize, Honorable Mention, 1989.
John Masefield Memorial Prize, Poetry Society of America, Runner-up, 1988.

FELLOWSHIPS

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship--Poetry, 1998.

READINGS

Canterbury Books, Madison, WI, forthcoming.
Whittier College, Whittier, CA 2000.
City Lights, San Francisco, 1999.
Cody's Books, Berkeley, CA, 1999.
Wright State University, 1999.
Fordham University, New York, NY, 1998.
Whittier College, Whittier, CA, 1998.
Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA, with Willis Barnstone, 1997.
The Writers House, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1997
Cody's Books, Berkeley, CA, 1996.
Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 1996
The University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 1996.
State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, 1994.
Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, Inc. with Tony Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, in association with Elliot Bay Book Co, Seattle WA, 1994.
Powell's Bookstore, with Tony Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, Portland, OR, 1994.
Black Oak Books, with Tony Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, Berkeley, CA, 1994.
Share Our Strength: The Writers Harvest, Stadler Poetry Center, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1993, 1994.
Rutgers University, with Lisa Rhoades and Rebecca Reynolds, New Brunwick NJ, 1994.
Women Poets at Bucknell, Stadler Poetry Center, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1994, 1997.
The Fall Dance Concert, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Todd Rosenlieb of the Eric Hawkins Dance Company choreographed three of my poems, 1993.
Music and Art Residential College, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1993, 1995, 1996.
Stadler Poetry Center, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1993.
Canterbury Books, with Willis Barnstone and Tony Barnstone, Madison, WI,1993.
Canterbury Books, with Andrea Musher, Marilyn Annucci, and Lisa Rhoades, Madison, WI, 1993.
Bucknell University English Department, Lewisburg, PA, 1993
Canterbury Books, with Willis Barnstone, Madison, WI, 1992.
Four Star Books, Madison, WI, with A.M. Perez, 1991.
Berkeley English Department Reading, with Alan Williamson and Florence Elon, 1989.
Black Oak Books, Berkeley, CA, with Robert Pinsky, John Dolan, and P. Michael Campbell, 1988.
Berkeley English Department Reading, with Robert Pinsky and Alan Shapiro, 1988.