Phoebe Giannisi presents Chimera at Brown University

Exploring motherhood, myth, and “transhumance,” Chimera is a stunningly ambitious poetry volume

Phoebe Giannisi & Eleni Sikelianos
Wednesday, October 30th, 5:30 pm
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

"An intimate and utterly feminine perspective on language and regeneration."
— The New York Times

performance « Transhumance » at Brown University. Based on the book Chimera, New Directions 2024 (a version of Χίμαιρα, Καστανιώτης 2019) translated by Brian Sneeden.
Many thanks to Eleni Sikelianos and Yannis Hamilakis and the audience for the wonderful discussion that followed. And to Elsa Amanatidou from the Modern Greek Studies Department here for taking care of the event.
Photos by Yannis Hamilakis.

Phoebe Giannisi, one of the foremost contemporary Greek poets, is a professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly. She is the author of eight books of poetry, two of which have appeared in English with New Directions Press, while a third, Homerica (World Poetry Books: 2017) was selected by Anne Carson as a Favorite Book of 2017. Her work in the field of Ecopoetics transverses the borders between various media, investigating the poetics of voice, body and place through writing, performances, video and sound-works, poetic installations.

This event is part of Ecopoetics, a series curated by Eleni Sikelianos and presented by Literary Arts in conjunction with Modern Greek Studies, the Center for Environmental Humanities and the Brown Arts Institute.

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https://hellenic.princeton.edu/events/2024/reading-transhumance-phoebe-giannisi-author

https://www.ndbooks.com/event/phoebe-giannisi/