Stanley H. Barkan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stanley H. Barkan

poet, translator, editor, publisher

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1936

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession: poet

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Stanley H.
Barkan (born 26 November 1936) is an American poet, translator, editor, publisher (e.g.:Cross-Cultural Communications which he founded in 1971).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 2016, his 46th anniversary year, produced some 425 titles in 58 different languages.
His own work has been translated into 26 different languages, and published in 20 collections, several of them bilingual (Bulgarian, Chinese, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Sicilian).