Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949,
Hermoupolis
Ermoupoli ( el, Ερμούπολη), also known by the formal older name Ermoupolis or Hermoupolis ( el, < "Town of "), is a to ...
) is a Greek poet, resident in the United States. She has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at
Brandeis University
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since 1995.
Biography
Born and raised on the island of
Syros
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The largest towns are Ermoupoli, A ...
, Broumas secured a fellowship through the
Fulbright program
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to study in the United States at the
University of Pennsylvania
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. There, she earned her bachelor's degree in architecture. She later went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from the
University of Oregon
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.
After earning this degree, Broumas co-founded and taught at Freehand, Inc., a school in
Provincetown
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, Massachusetts for female writers and artists. The school disbanded in 1987.
Broumas has worked in the creative writing programs at several universities, including the University of Idaho and Goddard College.
She currently is the Professor Emerita of the Practice of English at Brandeis University.
Works and honours
Her first collection of poems, ''Beginning with O'', was considered groundbreaking in its depiction of explicit lesbian sexuality.
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Broumas was selected by
Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (; July 29, 1905May 14, 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.
Biography
Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massac ...
for the
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/ref> in 1977, the first non-native speaker of English to receive this award. Other honors have included a Guggenheim Fellowship
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and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
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.
Bibliography
Collections
*''Beginning with O'' (Yale, 1977).
*''Soie Sauvage'' (Copper Canyon Press
Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington.
Copper Canyon Press publishes new collections of poetry by both popu ...
, 1979).
*''Pastoral Jazz'' (Copper Canyon Press, 1983).
*With Jane Miller
Jane Miller (born 1949) is an American poet.
Life
Jane Miller was born in New York and lives in Tucson, Arizona. She served as a professor for many years in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Arizona—including a stint as its Dire ...
: ''Black Holes, Black Stockings'' (Wesleyan, 1985).
*''Perpetua'' (Copper Canyon Press, 1989).
*With T. Begley
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: '' Sappho’s Gymnasium'' (Copper Canyon Press, 1994).
*''Rave: Poems, 1975-1999'' (Copper Canyon Press, 1999).
Translations
*''What I Love'': Selected Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press, 1986).
*''The Little Mariner'' by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press, 1988).
*''Eros, Eros, Eros'': Selected and Last Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press,1998).
References
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1949 births
Living people
20th-century Greek poets
Brandeis University faculty
Greek women writers
American lesbian writers
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry winners
LGBT writers from Greece
People from Ermoupoli
Greek expatriates in the United States
American LGBT poets
University of Oregon alumni
American women poets
Greek women poets
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
Lesbian academics