About Joseph Stanton author of Things Seen
Joseph Stanton
Joseph Stanton’s previous books of poems are A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban Oʻahu, Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball, and What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem (co-authored with Makoto Ōoka, Wing Tek Lum, and Jean Toyama). His other sorts of books include Looking for Edward Gorey, The Important Books: Children’s Picture Books as Art and Literature, Stan Musial: A Biography, and A Hawaiʻi Anthology. His poems have appeared in New Letters, Antioch Review, Poetry, Harvard Review, Poetry East, Cortland Review, New York Quarterly, and many other magazines. He has collaborated on many occasions with artists, musicians, and other writers. He has received many awards for his work including the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award, the Cades Award for Literature, and the Ekphrasis Prize. Things Seen was a finalist for the Brick Road Poetry Prize. In his day job, he is an art historian and a literary historian. He is a Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.