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Poet of the Week: Kyriaki Lymperi | 24 Apr. 2026
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Poet of the Week: Kyriaki Lymperi | 24 Apr. 2026

Kyriaki Lymperi was born and lives in Chalkida. She worked as a veterinarian in the public sector. Her poetry collections include: “Koitousa Mesa sto Potiri” (Chalkida, 2009), “Emaftou” (Chalkida, 2010), “To Kallos kai to Trauma” (Gavriilidis Publications, 2012), “Zitimata Ypsous” (Typothito – Lalon Ydor, 2015), “Ormitikoi oi Fthoggoi os to Chanomai” (Friends Editions, 2017), “To Oraio to Ftiachneis” (Friends Editions, 2019), “Ta Kathimerina Varathra” (Koralli Publications, 2023), and “To Kotsyfi sto Stithos” (Koralli Publications, 2025). She has also published a bilingual translation of “Les Fleurs du mal” by Charles Baudelaire (Koralli Publications, 2021), titled “25 Poems from The Flowers of Evil”.

Her poems have appeared in literary journals such as Ta Poiitika, To Frear, Oropedio, Dekata, Thefth, Porfyras, Diodos, Manifesto, To Koralli, Karyothrafstis, Apoplous, Mouson, as well as online platforms including frear.gr and poeticanet.

Her critical writings—mainly on poetry—have been published in the supplement “Anagnoseis” of the newspaper Kyriakatiki Avgi, in literary magazines (To Koralli, Apoplous, Thefth, Sisyphos, Ta Poiitika, Karyothrafstis, To Noima, Diodos), and on digital platforms such as bookpress, frear.gr, Chartis, fractal, and Peri Ou.

She is a member of the Circle of Poets (Athens). In 2019 and 2025, she participated in the 5th and 11th Athens International Poetry Festival.

Her poems are included in numerous Greek and thematic anthologies—on writers such as Papadiamantis, as well as themes like childhood and dreams—and in the Circle of Poets’ annual calendars. She is also featured in an anthology of the Generation of the 1980s, published at the end of 2025 in Italy by Enzo Terzi, edited by poet Giannis Pappas, translated by Massimo Cazzulo and Cristiano Luciani, with an introduction by critic Vangelis Chatzivasileiou.

Music curation: Maria Rempoutsika
Sound editing: Eleftheria Papoutsaki

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