Coleman Barks

Dr. Coleman Barks, now retired Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia in Athens, taught American Literature and Creative Writing at various universities for thirty four years. He has published six volumes of his own poetry and has collaborated with various scholars of the Persian language to bring the poetry of the 13th Century mystic, Jelaluddin Rumi, into American free verse. This work has resulted in nineteen volumes, including the bestselling, Essential Rumi. The University of Georgia Press  published  Winter Sky: Poems 1966-2008 .