Writer

Dean Kostos

Professional Experience:
  • New York University: Gallatin School, New York (Fall Term, 2005): Adjunct Professor—Freud & Surrealism
  • Columbia Scholastic Press Association, New York (2003–Present): Presenter / Lecturer—Fall and Spring Conferences
  • Gotham Writers’ Workshop, New York (2001 to Present): Poetry Instructor
  • Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York (2000 to Present): Poet-in-Residence / Teaching Artist
  • Great Lakes Colleges Association (2000 to Present): Adjunct Professor
Book Publications:
  • Pomegranate Seeds, edited by Dean Kostos (Somerset Hall Press, 2007)
  • Last Supper of the Senses (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2005)
  • Mama’s Boy, co-edited by Dean Kostos (Painted Leaf Press, 2000)
  • The Sentence That Ends with a Comma (Painted Leaf Press, 1999)
  • Celestial Rust (Red Dust Press, 1994)
Selected Journals and Anthologies (from more than 80 publications):
  • “On the Difficulty of Reading Paul Celan,” Porcupine (forthcoming)
  • “Dusk over Hartford,” The Wallace Stevens Journal (2006)
  • “Introducing John L. Sullivan,” Western Humanities Review (2004)
  • “Nostalgia for Now,” Cimarron Review (2004)
  • “The Heart of the Dauphin,” Big City Lit (2004)
  • “Corot’s Red Fleck” & “Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn,” Chelsea (2003)
  • “Golden Mouth,” Rattapallax (2002)
  • “The Kaisariani Cemetery in October,” Southwest Review (1999)
  • “Talis(manic),” Oxygen.com (1999)
  • “Twilight in Zappio Park,” Boulevard (1998)
  • “A Poem Beginning with a Line by Robert Duncan,” Barrow Street (1998)
Theater:
  • Commissioned to write Dialogue: Angel of Peace, Angel of War, set to music by James Bassi, Voices of Ascension, Church of the Ascension, New York, NY (2005)
  • Wrote & directed the choreo-poem Box Triptych, La MaMa, New York, NY (1991)
Honors:
  • Served as judge for the CSPA Gold Circle Awards, Columbia University (2006)
  • Served as judge for the CSPA Gold Crown Awards, Columbia University (2005)
  • Lyric Recovery Contest Finalist at Carnegie Hall (2004)
  • Yaddo Fellowship Recipient (2001)
  • Sensations magazine’s Sestina Competition Winner (1995)
  • In Our Own Write Poetry Competition Winner (1994)

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