Events

    2015 Jul 16

    Paros Poetry Conversation and Translation Symposium

    Thu Jul 16 (All day) to Sun Jul 26 (All day)

    Location: 

    Paros, Greece

    The Paros Symposium is an annual meeting of Greek and U.S. poets, translators, and editors. The symposium, which met for the first time in 2004, was motivated in the words of its organizers, Greek poet Siarita Kouka and U.S. poet Susan Gevirtz, in the hope of “altering our orientations to our own languages and writing, as well as expanding our understanding of the social contexts in which we (respectively) make our work. Observing that we were not alone in this hope and these needs, we proceeded to invite others.” The symposium met for six years during the last week of June on the island...

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