Joseph Stanton's books of poems are A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban Oahu, Cardinal Points, Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, and What the Kite Thinks. His other books include A Hawaii Anthology, The Quietest Singing, and The Important Books: Children's Books as Art and Literature. His poems have appeared previously in poetrybay and Long Island Quarterly as well as in Poetry, Harvard Review, New York Quarterly, Poetry East, The Cortland Review, and many other places. He teaches art history and American studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.