The English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Poet, translator, critic, and editor - Aliki Barnstone teaches workshops in creative writing (poetry) and literary translation, as well as courses in Poetry and Poetics and American Literature, including the Nineteenth-Century and Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Her books of poems are Blue Earth; Wild With It, a National Books Critics Circle Notable Book; Madly in Love; Windows in Providence; and The Real Tin Flower (introduced by Anne Sexton and published when she was twelve years old). She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize twice. She edited A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era, The Shambhala Anthology of Women’s Spiritual Poetry, and she introduced and wrote the readers’ notes for H.D.’s Trilogy. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, The Georgia Review, New Letters, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has recorded a collaborative C.D. with musician Frank Haney. Her translation, The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation, was published by Norton in 2006 (read more), and her study of the development of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Changing Rapture: The Development of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry, is forthcoming from the University Press of Florida. Barnstone was awarded a Sabbatical Leave for the year 2005-06 to write a book of poetry, Eva’s Voice. The project is in the voice an imaginary poet, Eva Victoria Perera, a Sephardic Jew from Thessaloniki, Greece, who survives the Holocaust. At present, she is in Greece, conducting research and has recently been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship for academic year 2006-07 at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.