Book cover with a blue background. Large white title at the top reads, “BLUE EARTH.” Centered below the title is a rectangular photograph showing autumn leaves floating on dark blue water. Beneath the image, small white text reads, “poems.” At the bottom of the cover, larger white text reads, “Aliki Barnstone.”

Aliki Barnstone

2004 Silver Pen Awardee

Summary

Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and visual artist. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1956, and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. She has taught at Beloit College, Marquette University, Bucknell University, the University of South Dakota, the Prague Summer Seminar, and was writer-in-residence at Villanova University. From 1999-2007, she was Professor in the Department of English’s International MFA Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is currently Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Missouri, Colombia, and was appointed the poet laureate of Missouri in 2016.