Seven poems every week, one Greek poem each day, travels through the frequencies of THE VOICE OF GREECE, reaching the far corners of the earth where there are Greek voices.
The week from 04/11/2024 to 10/11/2024 is dedicated to the poet Penny Milia.
Penny Milia was born and lives in Athens. She is a poet, writer, performer, and psychotherapist. Her poetry collection “After the Fire” has been published, which is the first poetry book in Greece featuring digital augmented reality works by the visual artist Anna Meli (in Greek and English, Kappa Publishing, 2022), as well as her play “Spanish Summer” (Kappa Publishing, 2019), which was staged at the Bip Theatre in Athens in 2019.
Her poems are also included in the collective poetry collections “In Favor of Dreaming” (Gavriilidis, 2012) and “A Group of Poetry” (Gavriilidis, 2010) and have been published in various electronic and print literary magazines (Diasticho, Dekata, Mandragoras, 24 Grammata, Poeticanet, E-poema, Thessaloniki.info, etc.).
She has been awarded by the Panhellenic Union of Writers and the Association of European Writers-Literature for her poetry, as well as by the Greek Writers’ Guild (2017) for her play “Spanish Summer.” Her short story “From the Forest” was published in the collective volume of the women writers’ network “Her Voice” (Kastaniotis, 2023). Her play “Antigone, the Strangers, and the Fire” was recognized and presented in a reading at Vault Theatre (2023) and at the WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT Festival of Contemporary Greek Plays in Oxford and London.
In 2022, she participated as a speaker in the conference “Performance: Theoretical Approaches and Practical Applications” at the University of Patras on Poetry as Performance. As a performer, she participated in the new media exhibition “Inside the Image” with the performance “Into the Words,” with “Your Things / ARE NOT / Your Life” at the 12th International Poetry Festival in Athens and Kardamyli, with the performance “A Metamorphosis?” with the Animaterra group at rooms 2020, Kappatos Gallery, and as an actress in ancient drama (Oresteia, Trojans, Thesmophoriazousae), in theatrical monologues, devised performances, and writing and musical shows.
Her video poem “The Two” (dir. Evangelos Vlachakis) was screened in the official program at the International Book Fair Thessaloniki 2024, at the 12th Chania Film Festival, and at the International Experimental Film Festival.
Music supervision: Maria Rempoutsika
Sound editing: Eleftheria Papoutsaki