When: Thursday, June 9, 2022 | 19:00

Where: ACG Events Hall, The American College of Greece

Organized by: The American College of Greece and the Attica Tradition Foundation

The American College of Greece and the Attica Tradition Foundation invite you to the Twenty-Sixth Annual Kimon Friar Lecture by
Eleni Sikelianos
Poet, Professor of Literary Arts, Brown University

Translating Flesh, Translating Stone:
In Search of an Origin Story, with Eva and Angelos Sikelianos

Introduction by ACG Professor Haris Vlavianos

Bio of Eleni Sikelianos

Eleni Sikelianos was born and grew up in California, and has lived in New York, Paris, Colorado, and Providence. She is the author of nine books of poetry and two hybrid memoirs (The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine). Five of these have appeared in French and one in Greek, and her work has been translated into many other languages. She herself translates from the French. Her writings, deeply influenced by ecopoetics and family as well as animal lineages, have been widely anthologized, and she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, The National Poetry Series, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Princeton University’s Seeger Fellowship, and the Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Writing. Dedicated to the many ways poetry manifests in communities, she has taught workshops in public schools, homeless shelters, and prisons, and collaborated with musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. She currently teaches at Brown University.

Reception to follow

Free and open to the Public

The event will be livestreamed. You may watch it below.

For more information please contact us at +30 210 600 9800 ext. 1456 or [email protected]

Photo credits: Penelope Massouri