Poetry. LGBT Studies. "The poetry of sensation arises at the intersection of world, nerve ending, and language. Dean Kostos is a carnivalesque wizard on all three fronts, a type that Huizinga called 'homo ludens,' man at play. The delight he takes in sonic invention, puns, and traditional verseforms draws us into the game with him--a game whose ingenuity shouldn't blind us to the fact that he is also a poet of uncommon pathos"--Alfred Corn.

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Dean Kostos recently edited the anthology Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry (Somerset Hall, 2008); its debut reading was held at the UN. He is also the author of LAST SUPPER OF THE SENSES (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005); The Sentence That Ends with a Comma (Painted Leaf, 1999), which was required reading at Duke University; and the chapbook CELESTIAL RUST (Red Dust, 1994). He co-edited the anthology Mama's Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers (Painted Leaf, 2000), a Lambda Book Award finalist. His poems have appeared in over 200 publications. Some of the literary journals and web sites that have published his poems, translations, and personal essays include the following: Barrow Street, Big City Lit, Boulevard, Chelsea,The Chiron Review, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Confrontation, THE DIRTY GOAT, The Dos Passos Review, Ekphrasis, Euphony, Ginosko, The Griffin, Hubbub, Minnetonka Review, Poetry in Performance, Porcupine, Rattapallax, Red Rock Review, Southwest Review, Stand Magazine (UK), Stranger at Home, TALISMAN, VANITAS, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Western Humanities Review, ZONE 3, on Oprah Winfrey's Web site Oxygen.com, and in the anthology Reading Brokeback Mountain. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he has taught poetry writing at the Gallatin School of NYU, The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Gotham Writers' Workshop, Wesleyan, Pratt University, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, CUNY, and Berkeley College. Recipient of a Yaddo fellowship, he has served as literary judge for Columbia University's Gold Crown and Gold Circle Awards.

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