Readings, Performance, Conversation
Date: Tuesday, October 31
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. EDT
Please join us for a selection of poetry readings and performance by Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi and Giannisi’s poet-translator Brian Sneeden, in conversation with Laura Jansen.
Award-winner Phoebe Giannisi (Athens, 1964) is among Greece’s foremost contemporary poets. She is the author of eight books of poetry, three of which, Homerica (2017), Chimera (2019), and Cicada (2022), have now been translated into English by poet-translator Brian Sneeden. Her award-winning work focuses on field of ecopoetics, on the polyphony of voices attached to place, and the ethnography of the animated subjects that inhabit it. Bodies, weather, earth, seeds, orality, writing, love, female condition, mythic personas, sound, multiplicity, language, and animal beings constitute the primary subjects for Giannisi’s poetic activity. This hybrid event offers a unique opportunity to experience Giannisi’s performative poetry both in modern Greek and English, followed by an in-conversation about her multimediatic poetic practice and thought.
This event will be held virtually on Zoom, as well as in person. Please register for the Zoom here.
The Bristol Poetry Institute is proud to support this event, hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard) in collaboration with the APGRD (University of Oxford), the Michael Marks Trust, and New Directions Publishing.