Willis Barnstone

Willis Barnstone is a poet, memoirist, scholar, and translator of the moderns and the ancients, author or editor of more than seventy books over six decades of publishing. Born in Maine, he grew up in New York City. He has studied and taught in the United States, France, Switzerland, Argentina, Mexico, Greece, China, and other countries, and four times he has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. When not traveling, he now lives in Oakland, California.