Poetry & Prose Book Reading | City Lights

Submitted by the Event Organizer

City Lights is pleased to present the family of poets and translators. They will be reading excerpts from both new and old poetry and prose.

• Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. Her first book of poems, The Real Tin Flower (Crowell-Collier, 1968), was published when she was 12 years old, with a forward by Anne Sexton.
• Tony Barnstone was born in Connecticut and raised in Indiana, Vermont, and Spain. As a poet, translator, editor, and fiction writer, he is the author of seventeen books and a music CD.
• Willis Barnstone is a poet, translator, editor, and educator. Born in Lewiston, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin, Columbia, and Yale, he taught in Greece at the end of the civil war (1949-51), in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War, and during the Cultural Revolution went to China, where he was later a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984-1985).

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