Kosrof Chantikian

Kosrof Chantikian's new book of poems --- "The Songs Inside of You" was published in June 2020. Comments on the poems by Naomi Shihab Nye and Prartho Sereno are shown below:

"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

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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 Laureate Emerita of Marin County,

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"The Songs Inside of You" is now available from KOSMOS Books at: kosmos_books@sonic.net

Paperback: ISBN: 978-0-916-426-163: $19.95 + 4.30 CA tax & mail = $24.25

Hardcover: ISBN: 978-0-916-426-194: $35.00 + 5.65 CA tax & mail = $40.65

Each book is sewn and bound.

Text: 8 pages + 88 pages of poems.

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/e/B001KCNOQO

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.