Kaaterskill Clove

poems by Joseph Stanton

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Listen to this interview of the author with Catherine Cruz 
on Hawaiʻi Public Radio (April 9, 2024).

Joseph Stanton, author of this impressive collection of poems, is a masterful practitioner of art-inspired poetry. His commitment to the ekphrastic genre is evident in Kaaterskill Clove, a collection of poems inspired by artists associated with the Hudson River School. Stanton evokes works by the best of these artists. This collection captures the landscape wonders of the Hudson River School and the varied personalities of the artists who created profoundly American works of art.

POETRY / General 

ISBN: 978-1-962082-76-1 (print; softcover; perfect bound)

LCCN: 2025940087

Released July 1, 2025; Copyright 2025

98 pages

Author Biography

Joseph Stanton’s previous books of poems are Lifelines: Poems for Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper, Prevailing Winds, Moving Pictures, Things Seen, Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban O‘ahu, Cardinal Points, and What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem (co-authored with Makoto Ōoka, Wing Tek Lum, and Jean Toyama). His other books include Looking for Edward Gorey, The Important Books: Children’s Picture Books as Art and Literature, and Stan Musial: A Biography. His poems have appeared in Poetry, New Letters, Harvard Review, Antioch Review, New York Quarterly, and many other magazines. As an art historian, Stanton has written about Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak, and other American artists. He has collaborated with artists, musicians, and other writers, and has received many awards for his work, including the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award, the Cades Award for Literature, and the Ekphrasis Prize. Professor Emeritus of Art History and American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, he continues to teach in varied settings, most recently teaching the Starting with Art poetry workshop at Poets House in New York City and at the Honolulu Museum of Art.

Endorsements

“Joseph Stanton is one of America’s most accomplished ekphrastic poets.”
—Richard Wendorf, Director Emeritus of the Boston Athenaeum, author of The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait Painting 

“A Joseph Stanton collection is always cause for celebration . . . Art is a language he speaks fluently as a scholar, and through this poetry he is an artist himself.”  
—Lorette Luzajic, editor of The Ekphrastic Review

“Joseph Stanton’s ekphrastic poetry carefully guides the reader through a wide variety of paintings, often on unexpected paths that enlarge our understanding of painting and painter, and opens our eyes to the myriad possibilities that a keen poetic imagination can bring to a visual work of art.”
—Valerie Robillard, Poems Meet Paintings, 2021

“As Joseph Stanton is an art historian as well as a poet, his poetically presented readings are even more convincing. His unusual blend of scholarship and poetry helps him dig into the paintings with the acute vision he lays out for us to consider.”
—David M. Sokol, University of Illinois at Chicago, The Journal of American Culture, 2023

News and Reviews

Daniel Barbiero, Review, periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics (October 3, 2025)

David M. Sokol, Review, Journal of American Culture

Peter Rosegg, “Aiea Author Writes Poetry to Inspire,” MidWeek (April 17, 2024)

“A poet who writes about visual art must bring to it perceptions and revelations of his or her own. This book, being that way, points to the sky. It says to the reader: Look up.”
Robert Stewart, “Not for Nostalgia” (review), New Letters 

Recommendation from The Ekphrastic Review (September 9, 2023)

Valerie Robillard, The Poetry of Joseph Stanton: Words Meet Images (September 20, 2021)

Lorette Luzajic, “Ekphrastic Interview with Joseph Stanton” (July 6, 2019)