George Anthony Stanley (born 1934), is a Canadian poet associated with the San Francisco Renaissance in his early years.
It is then that he met Jack Spicer, who asked Stanley to join his Poetry as Magic workshop, which Spicer taught at San Francisco State College, and which included Robert Duncan, Helen Adam, James Broughton, Joe Dunn, and Jack Gilbert.
In 1971, Stanley moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lived for five years, working on the underground newspaper, The Grape.
In 1976, he moved to Terrace in northern B.C., where he worked as an instructor in the English department at Coast Mountain College, a position he held until 1991.
He also edited and contributed to the intergenerational Vancouver literary journal, Tads (1996-2001), through which Stanley, George Bowering, Jamie Reid, and Renee Rodin mentored younger writers such as Thea Bowering, Wayde Compton, Reg Johanson, Ryan Knighton, Jason Le Heup, Chris Turnbull, and Karina Vernon.