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Poet Of The Week

Voice of Greece radio is once again including in its program the two-minute poetry tributes titled “Poet of the Week”, with the aim of disseminating, supporting, and promoting the Greek language and culture.Each weekly episode is a tribute to a contemporary poet from Greece or the Greek Diaspora.The poets recite their poems themselves, against original music, composed and played in the studio of the Hellenic Radio by the musicians of the ERT Orchestra, as well as musical pieces by well-loved composers.Seven poems every week, one Greek poem every day travels through the frequencies of “Voice of Greece” to the ends of the earth, where there are Greek voices.

Poet of the Week Myrsini Gana
Myrsini Gana was born in Athens. She studied English Literature at the University of Athens and Cultural Management in Brussels. She works as a translator. Her first poetry collection Ta Pera Meri (2017, Melani Editions) was awarded with the Audience Award of Public and the Debutant Poet Award by...
Poet of the Week Katerina Thanopoulou | 11.13.2022
Katerina Thanopoulou was born in Athens. She is a special education mathematician with postgraduate studies in Special Education, Intercultural and Remote Education. She participated in the collective publication "To Theatro kai oi technikes tou os mochlos anaptyxis tou ekpaideftikou". She has published...
Poet of the Week Vassiliki Rapti
Η Δρ. Βασιλική Ράπτη γεννήθηκε στον Αλμυρό Μαγνησίας όπου και μεγάλωσε. Ως υπότροφος του ΙΚΥ σπούδασε Ελληνική Φιλολογία και Συγκριτική Φιλολογία και Ψηφιακά Μέσα, στην Ελλάδα, τη Γαλλία και τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες. Είναι Διδάκτωρ Συγκριτικής Φιλολογίας με έμφαση στο Θέατρο του Πανεπιστημίου Ουάσιγκτον...
Η Κατερίνα Θανοπούλου είναι “Η ποιήτρια της εβδομάδας” | 07-13.11.2022
Η Φωνή της Ελλάδας, το ραδιόφωνο της ΕΡΤ που απευθύνεται στους Έλληνες όπου γης, με όχημα τη διάδοση, τη στήριξη, και την προβολή της ελληνικής γλώσσας και του ελληνικού πολιτισμού, εντάσσει και πάλι στο πρόγραμμά της τα αφιερωματικά δίλεπτα ποίησης με τίτλο «Ο ποιητής της εβδομάδα...
Poet of the Week 10-07-2022
Eleni Zacharopoulou Iliopoulou was born in Tropaia of Gortynia - Arcadia. She studied at the Pedagogical Academy of Tripoli. She writes poetry and essays. In 1994 she published the poetry collection: "Leaving the lull", awarded by the French Academy "Lutece". In 1995, she published the essay "I parasimoforia...
Poet of the Week 01/13/2020
Dimitris Kosmopoulos was born in Kontogoni (Papaflessa), Pylia, in Messinia, on the Peloponnese peninsula. He grew up in Kalamata. He studied in Athens. He is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published nine books of poetry and three books of essays on literature and criticism. His essays, translations...
Poet of the Week 12/02/2019
In 1963 she married Giorgos Papakostas and they had three sons. She has worked at the National Bank of Greece and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is a Social Welfare volunteer at the Hellenic Red Cross. Her poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, English and Turkish, and...
Poet of the Week 04/15/2019
Maria Patakia was born in Athens. She studied at the Law School of the University of Athens and European Law at the Paris 2 University in Paris. She has worked in Brussels as a Legal Advisor to the European Commission and is president of the KYKLOS, a Cultural Association of Greek expats in Brussels. She...
Poet of the Week 03/17/2019
Nikolas Evantinos was born in 1982 and is from Ierapetra in Crete. He studied History and Archaeology, with postgraduate studies in Modern Greek Literature at the University of Crete. He has written five books of poetry. "Mikres Angelies" and "Eidiseis" from the publications Gavriilidis, "Rouvikonas...
Poet of the Week 01/27/2020
Dimitris Angelis was born in Athens in 1973. He studied theology and holds a doctorate in philosophy. A poet and essayist, he has published seven poetry collections, studies and short stories. He was director of the magazine Nea Efthini (iss. 1-16), currently, the magazine Frear (distinction by the...
Poet of the Week 03/25/2019
Giorgos Veis was born in Athens in 1955. Ambassador ad honorem. He studied law. His poems have been translated into seven European languages, Indonesian and Chinese. He has worked as a literary critic since 1976. Vice President of the Hellenic Authors’ Society 2017-2019. He served in the Diplomatic B...
Poet of the Week 09/07/2020
Maria Koulouri was born in 1975 in Chalkida, and now lives in Athens. She has studied speech therapy, psychotherapy, theater and is currently studying European Civilisation at the Hellenic Open University. Three of her poetry books have been published in Greece by Melani Publications: "Bare Museum",...
Poet of the Week 10/27/2019
Nikos Erinakis (Athens, 1988) holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universities of London and Oxford, having studied economics [Athens University of Economics and Business], philosophy and comparative literature [Warwick], and philosophy of the social sciences [LSE]. He has occasionally taught Political...
Poet of the Week 04/08/2019
Dimitra Ch. Christodoulou was born in Athens in 1953. She studied Law and Literature. She worked as a teacher in Public Secondary Education until her retirement. She has published thirteen books of poetry, a book of prose texts and a volume of translations of ancient Greek lyric poetry. Her fourteenth...
Poet of the Week 07/27/2019
Lina Stefanou was born in Athens. Since 1980 she has worked as a journalist in: Major newspapers (Vradyni, Acropolis, TA NEA, Ethnos, Proti, Gnomi, Epikairotita, TO VIMA etc.). Well-known magazines (KLIK, Flash, Madame Figaro, METRO, Oxy, DNA, Mirror, Epsilon, Ticket, Status, Symbol). Television (ET2...
Poet of the Week 02/17/2020
Giorgos Markopoulos was born in Messini in 1951 and has been living in Athens since 1965. He studied economics. He has published seven collections of poetry, one of prose, two volumes of his essays on the work of other poets, two monographs (on football in Greek poetry and on the work of Tasos Livaditis),...
Poet of the Week 09/09/2019
Lefteris Xanthopoulos was born in Athens in February 1945. He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens without sitting through the final exams, and cinema at The London Film School in England. He has published fifteen books (poetry, prose, essays, testimony) and directed over forty...
Poet of the Week 02/09/2020
Nikos Katsalidas was born in Ano Lesinitsa, in the area Theologos of Sarandë in south Albania. He is the son of folklorist Grigoris Katsalidas. Today, he lives in Athens. He studied literature in Tirana. A poet, prose writer, translator and essayist with several honors and awards. He is a member ...