WINGS OF THOUGHT

About the Book

This anthology is a five-year retrospective of poetry readings at A POETS ‘AGORA, a literary association in Athens, Greece. The poets who have read at the event, or have been part of the residency program share with the readers their poems in relation to the theme of the year. These theme-words capture the zeitgeist of Greece; Muted in 2015, Lull in 2016, Graft in 2017, Risk in 2018 and Verge in 2019. The poems are in Greek and English. The international poetry evenings, and the residency, take place in a neoclassical building at the foothills of the Acropolis, graced with frescoes that illustrate this publication. The poets are gathered along criteria of diversity and originality, as they belong to different currents of the rich Greek poetic spectrum. Together they gift readers with an authentic outline of contemporary voices, opening a path for students and researchers, or poetry lovers around the world, to receive a unique perspective on this artform.

About the Author

Karine Leno Ancellin was born and grew up in New York City. She earned an MA, with Honours, in Literature at the Charles V Institute of Paris VII; and worked on ‘Hybrid identities’ for her PhD at the Vrije Universiteit of Brussels. She worked as a journalist covering the Sahara region from Mauritania, in the early 90s, and was based as a ‘development’ correspondent from Brussels in 2000. She has been living in Athens for the past 6 years. She is a professor of literature, editor, writer and translator and has recently authored a poetry collection, The Missing Angle, published by Riza Press in December 2019. She is founder and director of A Poets’ Agora. Angela Lyras was born in New York to a Greek seafaring family from the islands of Chios. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the New School for Social Research, and then lived and worked in London for several years before returning to New York to work as Executive Assistant, in the early 90s, at The Institute of Contemporary Art/ PS1 Museum (now Moma/PS1). In 1991, she co-directed with artist Nicola Tyson, a Manhattan Soho-based contemporary arts project space for women, Trial Balloon, until 1994. Since then she shares her time between New York and Athens. She is co-founder and co-director of A Poets’ Agora, her Greek home also being the site where a Poets’ Agora Residency and events are held.