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Tony Barnstone is an American prolific poet, essayist, and literary translator. Author of sixteen books, Barnstone has had numerous of his work appeared in American literary journals form APR to poetry. He is currently the Albert Upton Professor and Chair of English at Whittier College. Currently, Barnstone has been doing multimedia work, working with artist Dorothy Tunnell to make a poetry graphic novel, with artist Alexandra Eldridge to make a poetry deck of cards, and with singer-songwriters John Clinebell and Ariana Hall to put out a CD of original music based on his book of WWII poems, Tongue of War (Album titled Tokyo Burning: WWII songs).

Biography
Born in Middletown, Connecticut, Barnstone was raised in Indiana, and lived for years in Greece, Spain, Kenya, and China. Barnstone is the son of poet and translator Willis Barnstone and visual artist Elli Barnstone. He was educated at the Wesleyan University, University of California, Santa Cruz where he received his B.A. and the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his PhD in English Literature.

Awards and Fellowships
Barnstone's first book of poetry, Impure, a finalist for the Walt Whitman Prize of the Academy of American Poets, the National Poetry Series Prize, and other national literary competitions, appeared with the University Press of Florida in June of 1999.

The Golem of Los Angeles, won the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry in 2007 by Red Hen Press.

Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki, published in 2009, won a fellowship from the NEA.

Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the California Arts Council, as well as the Poets Prize, the Grand Prize of the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, the Pushcart Prize in poetry, and the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry.

First prize winner of the CZP/Rannu Fund Prize in Speculative poetry.

Works
Laughing Lost in the Mountains: selected poems of Wang Wei (University Press of New England, 1991)

Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry (Wesleyan University Press, 1993)

The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters (Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1996)

Literatures of Asia, Africa and Latin America, (1999)

Impure (University Press of Florida, 1999)

Literatures of the Middle East (2002)

Sad Jazz:Sonnets (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005)

The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (Anchor Books, 2005)

The Golem of Los Angeles (Everyman Press, 2007)

Chinese Erotic Poems (Everyman Press, 2008)

Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki (2009)

River Merchant's Wife by Ming Di (Translated from the Chinese by Tony Barnstone, Neil Aitken, Afaa Weaver, Katie Farris and Sylvia Burn with the author, Marick Press, 2013) Poems Dead and Undead (Everyman Press, 2014)

Monster Verse: Poems human and inhuman (Everyman Press, 2015)