Joseph Stanton

             Joseph Stanton’s books of poems are A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban O‘ahu, Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, Cardinal Points:

             Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball, and What the Kite Thinks (a renshi collaboration with Makoto Ooka, Wing Tek Lum, and Jean Toyama).

             His poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Harvard Review, Ramrod, Poetry East, Abraxas, and New York Quarterly. One of his poems

             was selected to appear in Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” column. His other books include The Important Books: Children’s Picture Books

             as Art and Literature, A Hawai‘i Anthology, and Stan Musial: A Biography. His book on Edward Gorey is forthcoming in 2010, and he has a new

             book of poems just about ready to circulate. He is a Professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa where he teaches art history and American studies.

             Essays of his can be found in American Art, Journal of American Culture, Michigan Quarterly Review, Art Criticism, and many other journals. He

             lives in 'Aiea, Hawai'i.  He can be reached at jstanton@hawaii.edu