Stanley H. Barkan is an American poet, translator, editor, publisher. He grew up in Brooklyn and received a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Miami and a master's in English linguistics from New York University. He taught English at high schools in Brooklyn and Queens from 1964 until his retirement in 1991, the year he won the New York City Poetry Teacher of the Year Award. He founded Cross-Cultural Communications in 1971 and he went on to publish works by Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, Isaac Asimov and the Pulitzer Prize – winning poet and Barkan's friend Stanley Kunitz. Cross-Cultural Communications Review Series of World Literature and Art, has, till 2020, his 50th anniversary year, produced some 500 titles in 59 different languages. His own work has been translated into 29 different languages, and published in 28 collections, several of them bilingual,
Publications
Fullness of Seed
From Rhythm to Form, with paintings by Marsha Solomon
Pumpernickel
As Yet Unborn
Wiersze wybrane
The Sacrifice
More Mishpocheh
As Still as a Broom / Tan quieto como una escoba
No Cats on the Yangtze
Gambling in Macáu
Brooklyn Poems
Sutter & Snediker
The Machine for Inventing Ideals / Mașina de Inventat Idealuri by Stanley H. Barkan and Daniel Corbu
Acolada, Arba Sicula, Bitterroot, Confesinui, Confrontation, Contemporary Poetry, Cyclamens and Swords, El Poeta, The Forward, Footwork, Haikuniverse, Home Planet News, Immagine&Poesia, Interdisciplinary Humanities: Interviews. Ithaca 391, The Jewish Week, Korean Expatriate Literature, Krytyka Literacka, The Lips, Make Room for DAda, Margutte, Medicinal Purpose, Paterson Literary Review, Pedestal Magazine, Performance Poets, POETRY JOURNAL IN PRINT • BÁO GIẤY Vietnamese & English Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Poets e Escritores do Amor e da Paz, Prism Review, Prosopisia, Rattapallax, Revista Poesia, Shabdaguchha, Sicilia Parra, Syndic Literary Journal, The Broome Review, The Drunken Boat, The Muse, The Seventh Quarry, The Washington Square Journal, The Washington Square Review, The Woodstock Times. The Writer, Translation Review, Visions, Voices Israel, Waterways
2017, China: Best Poet of the Year, January 8, 2017, The International Poetry Translation and Research Centre, The Journal of The World Poets Quarterly, Editorial Department of the Chinese Poetry International
2016 Paterson, NJ – The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College Allen Ginsberg 2017 Honorable Mention, at the Hamilton Club, Stanley H. Barkan
2016 – L'Occhio di Scammacca" Sicilian award
2014 Canada 4th World Poetry Canada International – Peace, Film and Human Rights Festival Empowered Poet Award Stanley H. Barkan "for creating peace through poetry," October 6–26, 2014
2014 Swansea, Wales Poetry Magazine – Stanley H. Barkan Special Issue and Plaque "Honors the Publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications for over 40 years of literary excellence... from the CCC Family, April 11, 2014
2013 Paterson, NJ – The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College Allen Ginsberg 2013 Honorable Mention, at the Hamilton Club, Stanley H. Barkan
2013 Queens, NYC – Shabdaguchha, an international poetry journal, Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Stanley H. Barkan, poet and publisher, "for his outstanding contribution to poetry and publishing poets from around the world," at International Poetry Festival in Queens Central Public Library, Jamaica, New York, August 24, 2013
2011 Paterson, NJ -The Poetry Center of Pasaaic County Community College is proud to present to Stanley Barkan The Paterson Literary Review Award Award, , "for Lifetime Service to Literature," November 5, 2011
2011 Blairstown, NJ – The Seventh Biennial Warren County Poetry Festival Honors Stanley Barkan "in recognition of 40 years as Publisher & Editor of Cross-Cultural Communications and world-wide promotion of poets," September 24, 2011
2011 L.A. Korean Expatriate Literature Association – Certificate of Appreciation, Plaque, presented to Stanley H Barkan "for his promotion of the globalization of Korean literature through exchanges of Korean and American poetry," July 26, 2011
2011 Sienna College – NY Plaque Award, The Faculty of the Creative Arts Department at Sienna College are proud to present this award to Stanley H. Barkan "in sincere appreciation of 40 years of success in the Art of Publishing
2004 – NYC World Congress of Poets for Poetry Research and Recitation Diploma Prize and Silla Gold Crown World Peace Literature Prize, December 16, 2004
1998 Long Island, NY – Award for Poetry from the Brandeis National Women's Association
1996 – Poor Richard's Award, a bust of Benjamin Franklin, The Best of the Small Presses, "for 25 years of high quality publishing,"
