Hard Hat Reading Joseph Stanton mp4
Poet and art history professor Joseph Stanton reads “Rain at Night” from The Rain in the Trees by W.S. Merwin, then his own poem “The Last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō” from Prevailing Winds.
Joseph Stanton's eight books of poems are Lifelines: Poems for Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper (2023), Prevailing Winds (2022), Moving Pictures (2019), Things Seen (2016), A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban Oahu (2006), Cardinal Points (2002), Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art (1999), and What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem. For his poetry, Stanton has received a Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award and an Ekphrasis prize.
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I loved Joe Stanton's reading. I want to tell him--you--?--I was one of the first recruits from NYC--City College to East West Center in Honolulu--where I lived the graduate student's life in 1960--started the first poetry magazine in what was supposed to be Melville's press in a journalism Professor's office. In 2004 I came to return those 3 Penny Papers sold at the a la moana mall--for 1 dollar and gave an invited reading for the University. They should have my book there too--GOING TO BED WHOLE and the Three Penny Papers in the archive. The 42bd street library has them too--and Brown University. I also worked too on Ka Lono--the University's literary magazine. I went to Japan afterward and taught a lot of classes there before the Olympics and joined John Cage and Yoko Ono in Hokkaido--I returned to NYC in 1963 and taught here in W. Penna. at a University and founded a myth and folklore center and taught Asian Studies and Creative writing here. I facilitate a poetry workshop in a library in Pittsburgh that was founded in 1978 (not by me). and I write and know (knew) W.S. Merwin's work in Haiku Hawaii. I loved your poem--my latest book I WANT TO THANK MY EYES is at POET'S HOUSE in New York. I would love to take your workshop or just know you, Joe Stanton. Wish I was back in Hawaii again. It was a challenging but charmed life in Oahu and I finally did visit Molokai where not too many people have been either --was interested in Father Damien's work. It all seems so long ago. I'm sorry we can't sit and tell stories of kings and read poems together. Glad you are giving this nature workshop. Would like to read more of your work too. And in these days of banned books--I tell the world how I went to Lahaina--Maui was hotel-less and we rode in a pink kaiser-fraser jeep just to visit the whaling community of boarded up houses where Melville stayed to learn his whaling and where he got the idea for MOBY DICK. If no one reads they can't have those sources. They should say something about Melville and Stevenson and their days spent on the Islands so full of riches--of nature's treasures and people who sang and fed you and lived under the trees. Please let me know about your workshops and readings.