Stanley H. Barkan (born November 26, 1936) is an American poet,
translator, editor, publisher of 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 2020, his 50th anniversary year, produced some 500 titles in 60 different languages. His own work has been translated into 30 different languages, and published in 30 collections, several of them bilingual (Albanian, Armenian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Sicilian, Spanish, Urdu).
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