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 of Paros, and for five of those years at “The House of Literature.” In the seventh year the symposium met at the European Cultural Center of Delphi. The “House of Literature” was so named by EKEMEL, the European Center for the Translation of Literature and the Human Sciences, responsible also for recently renovating an old hotel and transforming it into an international meeting place for translators, poets, editors, journalists, and many other kinds of writers. EKEMEL is subsidized by EKEBI, the National Book Center of Greece. It has been our honor to be invited to hold the symposium at EKEMEL and EKEVI’s House of Literature.