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Biography
His poetry collections include This Is Not aSkyscraper (recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, selected by Mark Doty), Rivering, Last Supperof the Senses, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma, and CelestialRust. His memoir, In the Toot, is forthcoming. He also co-edited Mama’s Boy: Gay Men Write about Their Mothersand edited Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry (its debut reading was held at the United Nations).
His work has appeared in over 300 journals, including The Bangalore Review (India),Boulevard, Chelsea, Cimarron Review, The Cincinnati Review, MediterraneanPoetry (Sweden), SouthwestReview, Stand Magazine (UK),Talisman, Vanitas, Western Humanities Review, and on Oprah Winfrey’s websiteOxygen.com. His commissioned libretto, Dialogue:Angel of Peace, Angel of War, was performed by Voices of Ascension. His literary criticism has appeared on the Harvard University Press website and in Talisman. A multiple Pushcart-Prize nominee, and a finalist for the Gival Award, he won the Jot Speak Award (UK) for “Amadou Diallo’s Ghost Reminisces.” His poem “Subway Silk” was translated into a film and screened in Tribeca and at San Francisco’s IndieFest. He has been invited to read his work at Bryant Park, Poets House, Princeton, Harvard, and City Lights Bookstore.
Kostos has taught at Wesleyan, The Gallatin School, The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Berkeley College, LaGuardia Community College, York College, and New York City College of Technology.
Dean Kostos is the author of Last Supper of the Senses, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma, and the chapbook Celestial Rust. He also edited the anthology Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry, the debut reading for which was held at the UN. He co-edited the anthology Mama’s Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers, a Lambda Book Award finalist.
His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in over 200 publications, including Bayou Magazine, Barrow Street, Big City Lit, Boulevard, Borderlines, Chelsea, The Chiron Review, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Confrontation, The Dos Passos Review, The Dirty Goat, Ekphrasis, Euphony, GINOSKO, The Griffin, HUBBUB, The Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry, Minnetonka Review, Owen Wister Review, Poetry in Performance, Porcupine, Rattapallax, Reading Brokeback Mountain (anthology), Red Rock Review, The Same, Southwest Review, Stand Magazine, Stranger at Home (anthology), Talisman, Vanitas, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Vanitas, Western Humanities Review, Zone 3, and on Oprah Winfrey’s Web site Oxygen.com.
His literary criticism has appeared on Harvard U P Web site, in Talisman, American Book Review, and elsewhere.
He has co-translated poems from Spanish with Jaime Manrique for Bomb; his translations from Modern Greek have appeared in Barrow Street and Talisman.
Voices of Ascension commissioned him to write the text for the choral work Dialogue: Angel of Peace, Angel of War, set to music by James Bassi.
Box-Triptych, his choreo-poem, was staged at La Mama ETC.
A Pushcart Prize nominee, he has taught poetry writing at the Gallatin School of NYU, The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Wesleyan, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, York College, and LaGuardia Community College.
Recipient of a Yaddo fellowship, he has served as literary judge for Columbia University’s Gold Crown and Gold Circle Awards.