Discipline: Literature – poetry

Coleman Barks

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Athens, GA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Barks
Coleman Barks is an American poet, author, and educator, most widely known for his interpretations of Rumi’s work. Barks was born in Chattanooga, TN, and studied at the University of North Carolina, and the University of California at Berkeley. After receiving his degrees, Barks taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia and published several volumes of his interpretations of Rumi’s poetry, including The Hand of Poetry, Five Mystic Poets of Persia (1993), The Essential Rumi (1995), and The Book of Love (2003). Additionally, Barks also published several volumes of his own poetry, including The Juice, Gourd Seed, Quickly Aging Here, Tentmaking, and Granddaughter Poems. Barks makes frequent international appearances and is well known throughout the Middle East, and in 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from Tehran University. In March 2009 Barks was inducted into the Georgia Writers’ Hall of Fame.

Studios

New Hampshire

Coleman Barks worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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