This article is about the poet. For the Rhode Island politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, see Joseph Stanton Jr.
Joseph Stanton
Occupation
poet, scholar, professor
Joseph Stanton 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.[1]
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.[1] In 2007, Ted Kooser selected one of Stanton's poems for his "American Life in Poetry" column.[3] Under the guidance of Makoto Ooka, he participated with Wing Tek Lum and Jean Toyama in the collaborativerenshi poem What the Kite Thinks.[4] 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 CardinalsBaseball, 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 2014, he was selected for the Ekphrasis Prize by Ekphrasis magazine.[6]
In 2015, he won the James Vaughan Poetry Award by Hawaiʻi Pacific Review.[7]
In 2018, Stanton was given the Loretta Petrie Award for his contribution to the literary community in Hawaiʻi.[8]
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.[9]
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.
