Joseph Stanton (born 1949) is a Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi 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.
Contents
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 Hawaiʻi 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, Harvard Library Bulletin, The Lion and the Unicorn, Soundings, Children's Literature, and Michigan Quarterly Review. He has also written on baseball topics for such journals as Nine, Spitball, and Aethlon.
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 Oʻahu, 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 Oʻahu: Poems, Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball, What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem, Stan Musial: A Biography, and A Hawaiʻi Anthology.
Awards and honors
In 1997, Stanton received the Cades Award for his contributions to the literature of Hawaiʻi.
In 2010, Stanton received the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award from the Hawaiʻi 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 Hawaiʻi Pacific Review.
In 2018, Stanton was given the Loretta Petrie Award for his contribution to the literary community in Hawaiʻi.
Stanton's A Hawaiʻi Anthology, 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 ("best of") anthologies: Poetry East (2000), Hawaiʻi Pacific Review (1998), Long Island Quarterly (1997, 1994), Bamboo Ridge (1986), First Place, Hawaiʻi Pacific Review Poetry Contest, 1995.
One of the winners of the Poetry on the Bus Competition, sponsored by the Arts Council of Hawaiʻi and the City of Honolulu, 1988.
Books
Poetry collections
Solo Publications
Lifelines, Shanti Arts Publications, 2023
Prevailing Winds, Shanti Arts Publications, 2022
Moving Pictures, Shanti Artis Publications, 2019
Things Seen, Brick Road Poetry Press, 2016
A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban Oʻahu, Time Being Books, 2006
Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball, McFarland and Company, 2002
Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, Time Being Books, 1999
Collaborative Book
What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem by Ooka Makoto, Wing Tek Lum, Joseph Stanton, and Jean Yamasaki Toyama, University of Hawaiʻi, 1994
Anthologies and Collections
Paumanok: Transition, Island Sound Press, 2022
Poets Speaking to Poets: Echoes and Tributes, ed. by Nicholas Fargnoli and Robert Hamblin, 2021
From the Farther Shore: Cape Code & the Islands Through Poetry, ed. by Alice Kociemba, Robin Smith-Johnson, and Rich Youmans, 2021
Double Features: Big Ideas in Film, Great Books Foundation, 2017
Paumanok, Island Sound Press, ed. by Kathaleen Donnelly, 2022, 2013, and 2009
Scholarly Books
Looking for Edward Gorey, University of Hawaiʻi Art Gallery, 2011
Stan Musial: A Biography, Greenwood Press, 2007
The Important Books: Children's Picture Books as Art and Literature, Scarecrow Press, 2005
Books Edited
The Quietest Singing, (with Darrell H. Y. Lum and Estelle Enoki), University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2000
A Hawaiʻi Anthology, University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1997
The Ten Rules of Fishing, (with James Harstad), Bamboo Ridge Press, 1985
British & European Literature, Vol. I, II, & III, 1983