Tags: Coleman Barks

Wed, 05/13/2026 - 5:26pm

Tell me a story: Coleman Barks remembered in poetry and friendship

In Athens, May arrives with chapel bells, crowded sidewalks, final papers, graduation photographs, and the strange awareness that something important is ending just as something new begins. Few writers understood that feeling better than Coleman Barks. Barks, Athens poet, translator of Rumi, and professor emeritus of English in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, died Feb. 23, 2026, at age 88. Yet even months after his…

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