The Athens Centre hosts cultural events and activities year-round at its Athens facilities, on the island of Spetses and other venues.

St. Patrick’s Day celebrating

Ireland’s National Day

with

♣ IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC,

SONG & POETRY ♫

♣ In cooperation with and sponsored by the Irish Embassy, the Irish Insitute of Hellenic Studies, The Greek-Irish Society ♣

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POETRY READING

Adrianne Kalfopoulou lives and teaches in Athens, Greece where she is currently on the faculty of Hellenic American University. She has taught in the Scottish Universities' International Summer Schools Program at the University of Edinburgh, and various creative writing workshops in Greece. Her scholarly work has focused on Nineteenth and Twentieth-century American literature, particularly the contributions of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson. She is currently completing a collection of stories, and is at work on a monograph of Sylvia Plath's poems. An American poet, repatriated in the land of her ancestors, Adrianne Kalfopoulou is a consummate storyteller and poet, in whose books the history and lives of the people of Greece and its islands are honestly, memorably, and lovingly portrayed.

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens, Greece. She studied foreign languages and literature at the universities of Athens, Nice (France) and Geneva (Switzerland), where she was graduated in 1962. She has received Ford Foundation Grants (1972 and 1975), was invited to the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in the United States (1980-1981), during which time she lectured on Modern Greek Poetry and Nikos Kazantzakis at Harvard. She has subsequently lectured on other dimensions of modern poetry and given public reading of her poetry in English and in Greek in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. She won the 1985 Greek National Poetry Award for the Greek version of Beings and Things on Their Own.

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“Intercultural Dialogue with Yvette Jarvis:

An African-American in Greece”

Yvette Jarvis, a 1979 magna cum laude graduate of Boston University, came to Greece in 1982 as an accomplished basketball player, to play for Panathinaikos. She became the first African American to play in the Greek Women's Basketball League, while also being the first salaried female athlete in the league. She is the first African-American elected to public office in Greece in October 2002. An elected city councilwoman in Athens, Jarvis is a former professional athlete, model and actress. She is also a strong supporter of human rights, those particularly of Greece's women, children, immigrants, and the disabled. One of Jarvis' political accomplishments includes the establishment of a national toll free hotline for victims of domestic violence in April 2003.

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POETRY EVENING

THEO DORGAN is a poet, prose writer, editor, scriptwriter, translator and sailor. His new collection, GREEK, draws on many decades of visiting Greece, which he considers his second home. It deals with the impact of classical and contemporary Greece on a sensibility firmly grounded in the Irish tradition. Mr Dorgan is a former Director of Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, and he has worked extensively as a broadcaster of literary programmes on both radio and television. His prose book, SAILING FOR HOME, an account of a transatlantic voyage under sail, was praised by Nobel laureate Doris Lessing as "a book for everyone". His libretto JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, to music by Howard Goodall, was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 2005. His poetry collections include The Ordinary House of Love (Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1991); Rosa Mundi(Salmon Poetry, 1995); and Sappho’s Daughter (Dublin, wave Train Press 1998). He has also published a selected poems in Italian, La Case ai Margini del Mundo, (Faenza, Moby Dick, 1999), and a Spanish translation of Sappho’s Daughter La Hija de Safo, (Madrid, Poesía Hiperión, 2001). “The blend of street-warrior and muse poet is extraordinarily appealing… His is an Irish urban voice which can reach far into Russia as well as into the enchanted garden of Sufi love” —John Montague

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POETRY EVENING

Sofka Zinovieff was born in London and studied social anthropology at Cambridge. She came to Greece to carry out research for a PhD thesis on modern Greek identity and tourism and stayed for several years in Nafplio in the late 1980s. In the 1990s she lived in Moscow, London and Rome and worked as a freelance journalist for British newspapers and magazines such as The Telegraph, The Times Literary Supplement and The Independent. Her first book, Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens, was one of the New York Times’ “100 Notable Books” of 2005. Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life, came out in 2007 and has been translated into 10 different languages. Last year it was chosen as one of the Observer’s Best Paperbacks of the Year. Sofka is married and has two teenage daughters and has lived in Athens since 2001.

POETRY EVENING

Toi Derricotte was born in Hamtramck, Michigan, in 1941. She earned her B.A. in special education from Wayne State University and her M.A. in English literature from New York University. Her books of poetry include Tender (1997) which won the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize; Captivity (1989); Natural Birth (1983); and The Empress of the Death House (1978). She is also the author of a literary memoir, The Black Notebooks (W.W. Norton, 1997), which won the 1998 Annisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction. Together with Cornelius Eady, she co-founded Cave Canem, a workshop retreat for black poets, in 1996. About her work, the poet Sharon Olds has said, "Toi Derricotte's poems show us our underlife, tender and dreadful. And they are vibrant poems, poems in the voice of the living creature, the one who escaped—and paused, and turned back, and saw, and cried out. This is one of the most beautiful and necessary voices in American poetry today." Her honors include the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, two Pushcart Prizes, the Distinguished Pioneering of the Arts Award from the United Black Artists, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Guggenheim, and the Maryland State Arts Council. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.

Thursday June 25,AE Stallings, Sofka Zinovieff

July 1: Tony Barnstone, Roger Green

July 3: participant reading (Location: Villa Alexia in Kounoupitsa area )

A. E. Stallings http://www.geocities.com/aestallings

All readings take place at 8pm, at the Bouboulina Museum , unless otherwise indicated. All readings are free and open to the public. Wine and conversation follows the events. For more information, please call 210.701.5242 /210.701.2268 , or 6976160133

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, born in Athens, is one of Greece’s foremost poets and a distinguished translator. She studied Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Nice, Athens and Geneva, and after graduating from Geneva in 1962 was awarded that city’s First Prize for Poetry. She has read poetry and lectured at major universities and literary festivals in the USA, Canada, Mexico and across Europe. In 1985 she was awarded the Greek State Award for Poetry. Her latest book is Translating into Love Life’s End, translated by herself.

Tony Barnstone is Professor of English at Whittier College and has a Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature from UC Berkeley. His books of poems include The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008, winner, Benjamin Saltman Award)[ Sad Jazz: Sonnets (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005); and Impure: Poems by Tony Barnstone (University Press of Florida, 1998), in addition to the chapbook Naked Magic (Main Street Rag). He is also a distinguished translator of Chinese poetry and literary prose and an editor of literary textbooks. His books in these areas include Chinese Erotic Poetry (Everyman, 2007); The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (Anchor, 2005); Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry (Wesleyan, 1993); Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei (UP of New England, 1991); The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters (Shambhala, 1996); and the textbooks Literatures of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Literatures of Asia, and Literatures of the Middle East (all from Prentice Hall Publishers). He is the recipient of many national poetry prizes and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. Recently, he won the grand prize in the Strokestown International Poetry Festival in Ireland.

Roger Green is an English poet living on the Greek island of Hydra. Among his publications are several books of poetry, including With It or On It (2000). His translation of the Akathistos Hymn by Romanos the Melodist was published in 1987. His recent book, Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen (Basic Books), is a “fantastically discursive ode to obsession and myth, relayed in a series of digressions that prove far more illuminating-and life-affirming-than the facts laid bare.” He has also published a new collection, The Pyrofani Poems.

Adrianne Kalfopoulou lives in Athens where she teaches literature at the Hellenic American University. She also teaches in the Scottish Universities Summer Schools Program at the University of Edinburgh. Her publications include a poetry collection, Wild Greens, and a critical study, The Untidy House, a discussion of women's subversive discourses in American literature. Her memoir, Broken Greek: a Language to Belong, is available from Plain View Press, and can be ordered at www.plainviewpress.net. Her second collection, Passion Maps, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2009, a Pavement Saw chapbook contest finalist, "The Ways We Do" will be also be published in 2009.

Alicia (A.E.) Stallings is an American poet who has lived in Greece since 1999. Her first collection, Archaic Smile, was awarded the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Her second collection, Hapax, received the 2008 Poets’ Prize. She was also recently awarded the 2008 Benjamin H. Danks prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her new verse translation of Lucretius, The Nature of Things, is out from Penguin Classics, and she has received an NEA translation grant for work on the Erotokritos. She is director of the Poetry Writing Workshop organized by the Athens Centre on the island of Spetses each summer.

Sofka Zinovieff was born in England and is of Russian extraction. She studied anthropology at Cambridge; then, after spells living in Russia and Italy, settled with her family in Greece, an experience which she describes in her first, highly acclaimed book, Eurydice Street (Granta Books). Her latest book is Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life.

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Long before terrorism became a daily headline, a young Catholic girl in upstate New York battled her own private terrors: Dante's Inferno, The Red Scare, high school love, the AIDS crisis and her first Argentine Tango lesson scheduled for September 11, 2001

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Phil Stanley is a Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at San Francisco State University , where he taught in the Department of Classics for over twenty years. During that time he worked as an academic director in several overseas study programs and tours, i.a. in Athens and London. Having done profound studies in Ancient Greek history and mythology, he won numerous awards and grants. He has travelled extensively throughout Europe and parts of the Near East and spends half of the year in his house in Athens.

All readings take place at 8pm, at the Villa Alexia in the Kounoupitsa area, unless otherwise indicated. All readings are free and open to the public. Wine and conversation follows the events. For more information, please call 210.701.5242 /210.701.2268

Ellie Evans was born in Wales and read English at Oxford . She is doing a Creative Writing Doctorate at Bath , with a special study on Pascale Petit.

Sofka Zinovieff was born in

England

and is of Russian extracton. She studied anthropology at Cambridge ; then, after spells living in Russia and Italy , settled with her family in Greece , an experience which she describes in her first, highly acclaimed book, Eurydice Street (Granta Books). Her latest book is Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life.

Stephen Yenser, Distinguished Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at UCLA, took his B.A. from the University of Wichita and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison . His most recent volume of poems is Blue Guide ( University of Chicago Press ). The Fire in All Things (LSU Press) received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets . His other awards include the B. F. Connors Prize from the Paris Review, an Ingram Merrill Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, two appearances in the Best American Poetry series, and two Fulbright Fellowships, one to France and one to

Greece

. He has also taught for a year at the University of Baghdad . He has written three critical books (Circle to Circle: The Poetry of Robert Lowell; The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill; and A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large) and has just completed a fourth (Extravagant Engagements: American Poetry beyond the Pale). He is co-editor of Merrill’s Collected Poems, Collected Prose, Collected Novels and Plays, The Changing Light at Sandover, and (forthcoming in 2008) Selected Poems.

Stephanos Papadopoulos was born in North Carolina and raised in Paris and Athens . He is the author of Lost Days published by Leviathan Press in the London and Rattapallax in New York . His work appears in journals such as The New Republic, The Yale Review, Poetry Review, Stand and numerous international journals and anthologies. He has translated works of the Greek poets, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Yiannis Ritsos and Kostas Karyotakis. His own work had been translated into Greek by Katerina Anghelaki–Rooke. He is the editor and co-translator of Derek Walcott’s Selected Poems published in Greek by Kastaniotis Editions in 2007. His second collection, Hotel-Dieu, is forthcoming from Sheep Meadow Press and he is at present completing a collection of poems about the Black Sea Greeks, following a motorcycle trip through the region in 2007.

Tryfon Tolides was born in Korifi Voiou , Greece . He has completed a BFA in Creative Writing at the University of Maine , and an MFA at Syracuse University . He has received a Reynolds Scholarship, the 2004 Foley Poetry Prize, and his manuscript, An Almost Pure Empty Walking, a 2005 National Poetry Series selection, was published by Penguin in July 2006. His work has appeared in

America

, Atlanta Review, Mondo Greco, Poetry Daily, Worcester Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Farmington , Connecticut .

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, born in Athens , is one of

Greece

’s foremost poets and a distinguished translator. She studied Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Nice , Athens and Geneva , and after graduating from Geneva in 1962 was awarded that city’s First Prize for Poetry. She has read poetry and lectured at major universities and literary festivals in the USA , Canada , Mexico and across Europe . In 1985 she was awarded the Greek State Award for Poetry. Her latest book is Translating into Love Life’s End, translated by herself.

Tony Barnstone is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English at Whittier College and has published his poetry, fiction, essays and translations in dozens of major American journals. Among his translations are The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry, and The Art of Writing: Teaching the Chinese Masters. His latest collection is Sad Jazz: Sonnets, out from Sheepmeadow Press.

Richard Cecil has published four books of poetry, Einstein’s Brain (University of Utah Press 1986); Alcatraz (Purdue University Press 1992), selected by Gerald Stern as the winner of the Verna Emery Poetry Competition; In Search of the Great Dead (Southern Illinois University Press 1999), winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series; and Twenty First Century Blues (Southern Illinois University Press 2004). His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Georgia Review, Southern Review, New England Review and many other magazines. His work has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He teaches in the Department of English and the Honors College of Indiana University, as well as in the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Program.

Roger Green is an English poet living on the Greek island of Hydra . Among his publications are several books of poetry, including With It or On It (2000). His translation of the Akathistos Hymn by Romanos the Melodist was published in 1987. His recent book, Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen (Basic Books), is a “fantastically discursive ode to obsession and myth, relayed in a series of digressions that prove far more illuminating-and life-affirming-than the facts laid bare.” He has also published a new collection, The Pyrofani Poems.

Dinos Siotis was born in Tinos in 1944, studied Law at the University of Athens and Comp Lit at San francisco State . He lived in San Francisco from 1971 to 1982 where he worked as a janitor, journalist, printer while being a political activist againt the junta in

Greece

. He worked as Press Counselor for the Embassy of Greece in Ottawa (1982-1988), New York (1988-1990) and Boston (1997-2004). He published and edited ten political and/or literary magazines, 15 collections of poetry in Greek, English and French, a novel and two collections of short stories. He now edits (de)kata a literary review in Greek.

A.E. (Alicia) Stallings is a widely-published, award-winning American poet residing in

Greece

. Her work has twice been included in the Best American Poetry series (1994, 2000), and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her collection, Archaic Smile, won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. She has a verse translation of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura just out from Penguin Classics, and a second collection of verse, Hapax, out from Northwestern/TriQuarterly.

Nick Papandreou has published a novel called Father Dancing with Penguin UK (1996). In the United States it appeared under the St Martins/Picador imprint (1998) and was shortlisted for the 1999 Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. Stories and essays have appeared such journals as The Threepenny Review, Agni, Quarterly West, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, as well as in Canadian journals such as Quarry and Wascana Review, and in Greek journals - LEXI, Nea Poreia, Entefktirion, and elsewhere. His third book is KLEPTOMNEMON. He lives in Greece.

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POETRY EVENING

Wednesday, October 17, A reading in English by Irish poet

MICHAEL HIGGINS

Wine reception after the reading. Meet the poet,

talk to him about his work.

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Mets

Michael Higgins: One of Ireland ’s best-known politicians, Michael Higgins is the president

of the Irish of the Irish Labour Party, and member of Parliament for Galway West.

He was Minsiter of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993-97, and served as

Mayor of Galway on twice. Michael Higgins has campaigned for human rights in

many parts of the world, including Turkey , Western Sahara , Chile , Palestine , Peru

, Iraq and East Timor . In recognition of his work for peace with justice he was the

first recipient of the Sean MacBride Peace Prize, awarded in 1992 by the

International Peace Bureau in Helsinki .

He has written extensively, and is the author of three books of poetry.

In 2006 a selection of his academic, political and journalistic writing, Causes for Concern,

was published by the Liberties Press, Dublin , Ireland .

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· Dr. Rebecca Elia is a practicing Gynecologist in California with over twenty years experience including a past practice with renowned holistic Gynecologist Christiane Northrup. Rebecca has travelled to Greece annually for eighteen years. Using both her Greek and American experiences she will discuss how imbalances of feminine and masculine principles affect our health. She believes that “through recognizing and listening to the unique cycles and hormonal transitions of our body, we are able to gain accurate and clear information in creating health. By honoring the feminine principles, we are able to create healthier lives."

Friday, May 25th : Nea Makri on Zouberi Beach
Sunday, May 27th: Spetses, Anargyrios Amphitheatre
Thursday May 31st: Athens, The Athens Centre Courtyard

All shows start at 9.00pm.
The production is in English

Information and invitations: 210 7012 268

A Dorian Perspective on Chthonic Gods: the evidence for Dionysus and Helen at Sparta and for Kotyto at Corinth

Το Αθηναϊκό Κέντρο θα τιμήσει τη μνήμη του Αμερικανού ποιητή Alan Ansen, επί χρόνια φίλου και συνεργάτη του Κέντρου, με μια ποιητική βραδιά, την Πέμπτη 22 Φεβρουαρίου.

Η βραδιά με τίτλο «Alan Ansen: ένας Αμερικανός ποιητής στην Αθήνα» θα ξεκινήσει στις 7:45μμ, στο Αθηναϊκό Κέντρο, στην οδό Αρχιμήδους 48 στο Μετζ. Μια πληθώρα ομιλητών θα μιλήσει για το έργο του Ansen και την συνεισφορά του στην μοντέρνα ποίηση· θα γίνουν αναγνώσεις έργων του, απομνημονευμάτων του, καθώς και εκθέματα των βιβλίων του Ansen και του ευρύ κύκλου των φίλων του. Η βραδιά είναι ανοικτή για το κοινό. Θα ακολουθήσει δεξίωση.

ALAN ANSEN was born in New York , educated at Harvard, and traveled extensively in the U.S. and in Europe . He was secretary to W. H. Auden for seven years in New York , and was an intimate friend of the Beat poets andwriters, including Alan Ginsburg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and others. He died in Athens in November, 2006.

Alicia Stallings and Adrianne Kalfopouliou will read from their books of poetry.

A reception follows the reading....meet the poets and enjoy a glass of wine.

ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU has taught American Literature in Athens at several colleges. She has had award-winning poems in Nimrod, The Atlanta Review, and Whisky Island Magazine. Her book of poetry, Wild Greens, was a 1999 finalist for the Red Hen Press first book award. She also has a book of criticism published by the Mellen Press. Her memoir, Broken Greek, a Language to Belong, was recently published by Plain View Press. Adrianne participates each summer as a guest reader in the Athens Centre’s Poetry Seminar in Spetses.

ALICIA STALLINGS is an American poet who has been living in Athens for several years. Her first collection, Archaic Smile, was awarded the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Her work has also received a Pushcart Prize, the Eunice Teitjens and Frederick Brock Prizes from Poetry magazine, and the James Dickey Prize from Five Points. She recently published a second collection, Hapax. She is Dlirector of the Poetry Writing Workshop organized by the Athens Centre on the island of Spetses each summer.

Οι ποιητές Alicia Stallings – kai Adrianne Kalfopoulou θα διαβάσουν έργα από τις ποιητικές τους συλλογές.

Μετά την ανάγνωση θα ακολουθήσει δεξίωση και θα δοθεί η ευκαιρία να συναντήσετε τους ποιητές και να μιλήσετε μαζί τους.

Οργάνωση: Αθηναικό Κέντρο Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού.

American poet Marilyn Stablein will read from her books of poetry and short stories.

Marilyn Stablein received her BA from the University of Washington, and her MA from the University of Houston . She has traveled and lived in India , Tibet and Nepal , where she stayed for some time in caves in the Himalayas and where she studied Buddhist teachings.

Her many published poems, stories, essays and travel writings include Night Travels to Tibet; The Census Taker: Tales of a Traveler in India and Nepal; Sleeping in Caves: a Sixties Himalayan Memoir. Her poems and stories have been published in numerous periodicals, anthologies and reviews. She received awards in the Southwest Writers contest, was an exchange artist in Belfast , Ireland , and received an SOS artist grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. She was twice a resident writer at the Yaddo Centre in Saratoga Springs , NY , received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was winner of a University of Houston Cullen Fellowship .

Wednesday, 21st June: Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke & Stephanos Papadopoulos

Friday, 23rd June: Nick Papandreou

Monday, 26th June: David Mason & Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Wednesday, 28th June: Becky Sakellariou, Christopher & Kelly Bakken

Friday, 30th June: Jeffrey McDaniel

Monday, 3rd July: Aliki Barnstone & Alan Michael Parker

Wednesday, 5th July: Tony Barnstone & Alicia Stallings

Aliki Barnstone was educated at Brown University (B.A. and M.A.) and at the
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.). Her volume of poems, The Real
Tin Flower, introduced by Anne Sexton (Macmillan), was published when she
was twelve years old. Her volumes of poetry include Blue Earth (Iris,
2004), and Wild With It (Sheep Meadow, 2002). She has a new translation of
Cavafy out from Norton. She teaches at the University of Nevada at Las
Vegas.

Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of Alibi School, The Forgiveness Parade, and
most recently The Splinter Factory. His poems have appeared in dozens of
periodicals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Ploughshares,
New (American) Poets, and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He is a
recipient of grants from the NEA and the DC Commission for the Arts. He
teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Alan Michael Parker is the author of a novel, Cry Uncle, and three books of
poems, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, and Love Song with Motor Vehicles. He
is also editor of The Imaginary Poets, co-editor of The Routledge Anthology
of Cross-Gendered Verse, and Editor for North America of Who's Who in 20th
Century World Poetry. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships
from the Arts and Science Council, the Eastern Frontier Society, the
MacDowell Colony, and the Seaside Institute, Alan Michael Parker teaches at
Davidson College, where he is Director of Creative Writing, and at Queens
University, where he is a Core Faculty member in the low-residency M.F.A.
program.

Nick Papandreou has published a novel called Father Dancing with Penguin UK (1996). In the United States it appeared under the St Martins/Picador imprint (1998) and was shortlisted for the 1999 Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. Stories and essays have appeared such journals as The Threepenny Review, Agni, Quarterly West, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, as well as in Canadian journals such as Quarry and Wascana Review, and in Greek journals - LEXI, Nea Poreia, Entefktirion, and elsewhere. His third book is KLEPTOMNEMON. He lives in Greece.

Stephanos Papadopoulos was born in North Carolina and raised in Paris and Athens. Educated in the US and Edinburgh, he holds a degree in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His poetry has been published in major periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic, and attracted the attention of Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott, who invited him to attend the Rat Island Foundation’s first program on St. Lucia. Lost Days, his first collection, is published by Leviathan in London and Rattapallax Press in New York.

Becky Denison Sakellariou was born and raised in New England, but has lived all her adult life in Greece. She has raised a family and worked inpublishing, teaching, and counseling; she is also a feminist, an advocate for cross-cultural awareness, and a peace activist. She enjoys her plot of land in Euboia, which is filled with fig, olive, pomegranate, apricot, lemon eucalyputs, almond, mulberry, orange, cherry, and apple trees.

A.E. (Alicia) Stallings is a widely-published, award-winning American poet residing in Greece. Her work has twice been included in the Best American Poetry series (1994, 2000), and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her collection, Archaic Smile, won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Her poetry appears in many journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Five Points, Hudson Review, New Criterion, Poetry, the Yale Review, and Poetry Daily (www.poems.com). She has a verse translation of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura forthcoming from Penguin Classics.

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American poet Craig Arnold

Craig Arnold's book Shells was the 1998 volume
of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His poems have
featured in three volumes of Best American Poetry
(1998, 2004 and 2006) and widely elsewhere. Among his
honors are an NEA Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry
Traveling Scholarship, the Hodder Fellowship from
Princeton, and a residency at MacDowell. Most
recently, he was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize
Fellowship by the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. He teaches poetry at the University of
Wyoming.

The Athens Centre invites you to a friday night showing of

"The Unspoken"

A 25 minute documentary film portraying the struggles of Kosovan women in the face of war and oppressive traditions and their fight for redemption in post-war Kosovo.

Friday, October 14th, 18:00

The Athens Centre, 48 Archimidous Street, Mets.

A short introduction by Filmmaker, Cloee Cooper, at 17:30.

Discussion will follow.

Filmed, edited and directed by Antoneta Kastrati, Cloee Cooper & Sevdije Kastrati in 2002, The Unspoken has been circulated throughout the Balkans and Europe even stretching to the middle east including: The National Cinema of Prishtina - Kosovo, Radio Television Kosovo, The Bahai World Center in Haifa, Israel, Womens gatherings in Germany, Stage Door of Mt. Shasta, California and has been included in film festivals throughout the Balkans.

The Unspoken was fully supported by:

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) - Kosovo, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) - Kosovo, and Kosova Women´s Network (KWN)

John Anton is a well-known professor of philosophy, and a founding member of the Modern Greek Studies Association. Educated at Columbia University, where he received a Ph.D., he went on to teach in the philosophy departments of colleges and universities such as Columbia, Emory, SUNY Buffalo, and Mills College. He is currently the Distinguished Professor of Greek Philosophy and Culture at the University of South Florida, where he is also the Director of the Center for Greek Studies. Dr. Anton received an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the University of Athens, and will also receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Patras in May. Among his many academic honors, Dr. Anton is a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens and of the Parnassus Literary Society, and an honorary member of the Hellenic Society for Philosophical Studies. He has been named Outstanding Educator of America, has received awards for professional excellence from the University of South Florida, and the Papazoglou Award for Literature. In addition to hundreds of published articles and monographs, Dr. Anton is the author/editor of many books, including Aristotle's Theory of Contrariety, Critical Humanism as a Philosophy of Culture, The Poetry and Poetics of Constantine Cavafy, and Categories and Experience: Essays on Aristotelian Themes.

in aid of the Palini Animal Farm.
Date: Friday, Dec. 19
Time: 9:00pm
Ticket donations: 10 Euros
Information: 6937-515-632

An Evening of Madrigals. Heloise Pilkington and her group from London
will sing a selection of English Madrigals.

July 2, 2003
8.30 p.m. Athens Centre Courtyard
48 Archimidous Street ,Mets
An Evening of Madrigals. Heloise Pilkington and her group from London
will sing a selection of English Madrigals.

Monday, June 25th: Keynote poetry reading by Annie Finch, American poet and critic

Theatre production. Seneca's Trojan Women, Directed by Fred Ahl from Cornell University.

Irish-Greek Society talk on Jonathan Swift, by Norman Powers, followed by refreshments and a performance of chamber music.

The above events will take place at the Athens Centre, 48 Archimidous Street, in Mets. Details and reservations at 701-2268. There is no admission charge, but reservations are necessary for the theatre production.

St. Patrick’s Day celebrating

Ireland’s National Day

with

♣ IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC,

SONG & POETRY ♫

POETRY READING

“Intercultural Dialogue with Yvette Jarvis:

An African-American in Greece”

POETRY EVENING

POETRY EVENING

POETRY EVENING

POETRY EVENING

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