Poet Of The Week

Nikos Alexiou was born in Volos, Greece in 1959. He studied Economics in Athens and worked in various professions. In the mid-1980s, he moved to New York to study Sociology. Since 1990 he has been teaching at Queens College, State University of New York (CUNY). He has received the President's...

Stamatis Polenakis was born in Athens in 1970. He studied film directing in Athens and attended courses in Spanish literature and culture at the Complutense University in Madrid. He has published six poetry collections. His poems have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Italian,...

Ilias Gris comes from the town of Krestena in Greece. He studied Economics and, since 1975, he has practiced journalism in various media, mainly at the ERT television channels. He debuted in 1977 with his first collection and has since published seven collections of poetry, three books of prose,...

Ο Σταύρος Σταμπόγλης γεννήθηκε το 1946 στην Αθήνα. Φοίτησε στο ΙΓ΄ Γυμνάσιο Αθηνών. Είναι πτυχιούχος της τεχνικής σχολής Δοξιάδη1966 και Αρχιτέκτων DESA 1977, (Ειδική Αρχιτεκτονική Σχολή Παρισιού). Είναι μέλος του συλλόγου αρχιτεκτόνων ΣΑΔΑΣ, και ομότιμο μέλος του ΤΕΕ. Δημοσίευσε ποίηση για πρώτη φορά το 2007 με τ...

Zefi Daraki was born in Athens, where she still resides. Poet Vyron Leontaris was her life partner. Her son is the director Giannis Leontaris. Her works include: "Blockage", "Garden of Burns", "Eclipse", "The Wind and the Clocks", "Midnight Wolf", "Indefinite Events", "The Hanging Woman", "The...

Zacharias Sokos studied International and European Economic Studies at the Athens University of Economics and Business (ASOEE), as well as directing. He worked as a journalist at ERT, in newspapers and magazines. He has served as director of Hellenes Abroad and satellite television at ERT and...

Stratis Paschalis was born in Athens. He studied Political Science and Public Law at the Athens School of Law. He has published ten collections of poetry (the most recent ones being Epochi Paradeisou, 2008, and Ta eikonismata, 2013), a volume of essays (Poiisi se mikropsichous kairous, 2017), a...

Eftychia - Alexandra Loukidou was born in Munich. She comes from Istanbul and lives in Thessaloniki, where she studied at the School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She teaches Creative Writing in Thessaloniki and Cyprus. Along with poetry, she is involved in essay...

Titos Patrikios is a poet, prose writer, and translator. He took part in the Greek Resistance against the Axis occupation, first with the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON) and then with the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS). In 1944, he was sentenced to death by collaborators...

zacharias Sokos studied International and European Economic Studies at the Athens University of Economics and Business (ASOEE), as well as directing. He worked as a journalist at ERT, in newspapers and magazines. He has served as director of Hellenes Abroad and satellite television at ERT and...

Eva Modinou was born in Athens in 1959. She studied Mathematics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens. She works as an architect-engineer. She has published the following poetry collections: "Stichomythia" (2001) -"To koilo...

Antonis Fostieris is one of the most significant poets of the Generation of 1970s, a great age in Greek poetry. His poems have been translated into many languages. His works have been honored with many literary awards, including the Greek State Poetry Prize for the collection "Precious Oblivion"...

Charilaos Nikolaidis was born in Athens, in December 1986. He is a lawyer and a lecturer in Law (Public Law and Human Rights) at the University of Essex Law School in Great Britain. He has published the poetry collections "Alepou ston aftokinitodromo" (Melani, 2015) and "Alles Gefseis" (Melani,...

Dimitris Chalazonitis was born in Cameroon in 1959. In 1982, he graduated from the School of Dentistry of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been working as a dentist from 1987 until today. He has published the following poetry collections: "Era poVera", "Sferes", "Poleitai to paron",...