"So much love lives in the beautiful poems of Kosrof Chantikian
read them with a wide open soul
and prepare for restoration."
Naomi Shihab Nye, The Poetry Foundation, Young People’s Poet Laureate
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"In the tradition of Pablo Neruda and Rainer Maria Rilke,
Kosrof Chantikian offers these fierce and tender poems to the world.
I cannot think of a more important healing voice and vision
to help us navigate this precarious dark age."
Prartho Sereno, Poet Laureat Emerita of Marin County,
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The Songs Inside of You (published June 2020) is available as shown below.
Text: Eight pages + 88 pages of poems. Each book is sewn and bound.
Paperback: ISBN: 978-0-916-426-163: Price: $19.95 + 4.30 CA tax & mail = $24.25
Hardcover: ISBN: 978-0-916-426-134: Price: $35.00 + 5.65 CA tax & mail = $40.65
California taxes do not apply to out-of-state residents.
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His new book of poems entilted: Love Poems in the Age of Corona will be published in the summer of 2022.
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He was a finalist in the Dogwood Literary Prize in Poetry for 2018 and 2020.
He is also the author of two earlier poetry books: Prophecies & Transformations, and Imaginations & Self-Discoveries. He is the Editor of Octavio Paz: Homage to the Poet, and The Other Shore: 100 Poems by Rafael Alberti. He was Editor of KOSMOS: A Journal of Poetry, and Series Editor of the KOSMOS Modern Poets in Translation Series.
His poems have appeared in Amerus, Ararat, Blue Unicorn, Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Green House, Grey Sparrow Journal, KOSMOS: A Journal of Poetry, Leveler Poetry, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Snow Jewel, Verse Wisconsin, and other journals.
His essay on Octavio Paz entitled "The Poetry and Thought of Octavio Paz: An Introduction” appeared in Octavio Paz: Homage to the Poet, and was reprinted in Octavio Paz edited by Harold Bloom.
Series Editor – KOSMOS Modern Poets in Translation Series
The Other Shore: 100 Poems by Rafael Alberti
(Modern Poets in Translation Series, vol. 1, Spanish & English)
Transparent God by Claude Esteban
(Modern Poets in Translation Series, vol. 2, French & English)
The Beaches of Thule by Jean Laude
(Modern Poets in Translation Series, vol. 3, French & English)
Conjuncture of Body and Garden; Cosmogony by Claude Esteban
(Modern Poets in Translation Series, vol. 4, French & English)
Translations
Octavio Paz: Homage to the Poet
“Octavio Paz – Poetry as Coded Silence” by Jaime Alazraki
"Towards the Other Shore: The Latest Stage in the Poetry of Octavio Paz"
by Manuel Durán
“Reverberation of the Stone” by Ricardo Gullón
“Notes on Paz” by Julio Ortega
“The Passages of Memory: Reading a Poem by Octavio Paz” by José Miguel Oviedo
Poets & Writers: http://www.pw.org/content/kosrof_chantikian
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Kosrof-Chantikian...
YouTube:
Interview & Poetry Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqzzVu6LBME
"To the Old Man in the Rhodes Café"
Video:
Interview with Kosrof Chantikian by Neshama Franklin & Poetry Reading
(17 June 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqzzVu6LBME
Education:
He was educated at New York University and received Master's degrees in both Philosophy and Mathematics.
