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📚📚Poet Eleni Alexiou spoke to Reading Greece about her latest #poetry collection "seven breaths ago" (Saixpirikon, 2022), the main themes her poetry delves into, and the pivotal role of #language in her writings.

"Poetry works as a telescopic lens. How does one envision the future? What do we long for? Poetry becomes a means of escape, a destination, a path and a compass pointing toward whatever one dares to imagine. As Greek poet Andreas Embirikos writes: “My eyelids are transparent curtains. When I open them, I see whatever happens to lie before me. When I close them, I see whatever I desire”. The same goes for poems – they are eyelids".

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Reading Greece
Reading Greece: Eleni Alexiou – “Poetry becomes a means of escape, a destination, a path and a compass pointing toward whatever one dares to imagine”
Eleni Alexiou was born in Trikala, Greece in 1980. She holds a degree in Αncient and Modern Greek and Latin Language and Literature from the University of Patras and a diploma in classical guitar. She completed her postgraduate studies in Education at the University of Bath in the UK. She is a teac...
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Reading Greece
Reading Greece5 days ago
📚📚Οn the occasion of the publication of his book "Climbing the Peaks of the World", distinguished engineer and former President of the Pancretan Association of America and President of the World Council of Cretans, Emmanuel Velivasakis, spoke to Reading Greece about the milestones of his career, the way the book weaves together engineering, faith, culture, and diaspora, as well as about how being part of the Greek #diaspora community in leadership roles has shaped his professional path and worldview.

"The book moves between two dimensions that have always defined my life: the precise, rational world of engineering and the deeper, human world of faith, culture, and memory. I tried not to separate them, but rather to let them illuminate each other. Engineering, after all, is not only about structures of steel and concrete — it’s also about vision, persistence, and harmony, the same qualities that shape a meaningful life.

So the narrative alternates between the technical and the emotional, between the “how” and the “why.” A bridge, a tower, or a project becomes a metaphor for building endurance, connecting cultures, or spanning distances — both literal and spiritual. The immigrant’s experience, the devotion to one’s roots, and the quiet dialogue with faith give depth to the professional journey, turning it from a record of work into a story of becoming".

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Reading Greece
Reading Greece: Εmmanuel Velivasakis on Combining the Rational World of Engineering with the Human World of Culture
Emmanuel Velivasakis was born in Heraklion Crete and came to the United States for university studies where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil/Structural Engineering. He served as a Managing Principal with the Design firm “Thornton-Tomasetti”, where he had the unique op...
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Reading Greece1 week ago
📚📚On the occasion of the publication of the "Anthology of Greek Women Poets", comprising 19 contemporary Greek women #poets, into Polish, its editor and translator Leszek Paul spoke to Reading Greece about the book, the main themes the poetic works delve into, the challenges he faced while compiling and translating the anthology, as well as what makes Greek #poetry appealing to a Polish audience.

"#Greece is gradually being rediscovered by Poles—not only as a beautiful, hospitable country and a popular holiday destination, now more accessible thanks to improved living standards, but also as a culture of remarkable depth. Young people are beginning to realize that Greece is more than λίγο κρασί, λίγο θάλασσα και τ’ αγόρι μου—more than Zorba and souvlaki. It is also the cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos, the poetry of Cavafy—finally available in decent translations—and much more. There is a growing curiosity, a hunger to discover Greece from a different angle. And that hunger is worth satisfying".

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Reading Greece
Reading Greece: Leszek Paul on Introducing Greek Women Poets to Polish Readers
Leszek Paul (born 1963 in Poland) is a painter, stage and television set designer, and translator of Greek poetry. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. For over a decade, he has been running a blog dedicated to poetry translation, with a special focus on the works of women poet...
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