Stephanos Papadopoulos (born 1976) is a

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

Biography

Stephanos Papadopoulos was born in

North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and So ...

and raised in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

and

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

. He is the author of three poetry collections: ''The Black Sea'' (November 2012, Sheep Meadow Press), ''Hôtel-Dieu'' (2009, Sheep Meadow Press), and ''Lost Days'' (2001, Leviathan Press, UK / Rattapallax Press, NY). He is editor and co-translator (with Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke) of Derek Walcott's ''Selected Poems in Greek'', published by Kastianiotis Press, 2007. He was awarded a 2010 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship for ''The Black Sea'' and was the recipient of the 2014 Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer's Prize selected by

Mark Strand Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004 ...

Poetry Books

''Lost Days'', Stephanos Papadopoulos, 2001 Leviathan Press, UK, Rattapallax Press, NY ''Hotel-Dieu'', Stephanos Papadopoulos, 2009, Sheep Meadow Press, New York ''The Black Sea'', Stephanos Papadopoulos, 2012

Translations

''Selected Poems'',

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

, 2006 Kastaniotis Editions,

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

''Questi erano i nostri fragili eroi'', Stephanos Papadopoulos, Italian translation:

Matteo Campagnoli Matteo is the Italian form of the given name Matthew. Another form is Mattia. The Hebrew meaning of Matteo is "gift of god". Matteo can also be used as a patronymic surname, often in the forms of de Matteo, De Matteo or DeMatteo, meaning " escen ...

2011, Edizione Casagrande

Critical References

"Writing this good, this modest in its stance toward important matters, is hard to find in contemporary poetry. Our poet historians are too often earnest documentarians, but Papadopoulos goes for the life inside his stories, writing with an ear for the deeper music of grief." avid Mason, The Hudson Review "…One can hardly fail to notice the sensuality of Stephanos Papadopoulos' Lost Days. Frequently through flashing (but not flashy) metaphor, Papadopoulos creates too a sense of the infinite and intangible aspects of the world…Papadopoulos is able to pay tribute to such poets as Montale, cavafy and Brodsky without ever seeming dwarfed or dominated by them." nthony Haynes, The Tablet, London "Stephanos Papadopoulos has several qualities as a poet, one of the most conspicuous being his talent for the elegiac, his ability to bring to life memories and artefacts from times past, 'before the gods became a circus out of work'. 'Some things will not collapse,' he winks at Sextus Propertius, and, in his poetry, they don't. 'If I am to have a talent,' he writes, 'let it be this…and hold a vision true, to a moment's epiphany…' Stephanos Papadopoulos has that talent."

Bengt Jangfeldt Bengt may refer to: People In arts, entertainment and media Actors * Bengt Djurberg (1898–1941), Swedish actor and singer * Bengt Ekerot (1920–1971), Swedish actor and director * Bengt Eklund (1925–1998), Swedish actor * Bengt Logardt (1914 ...

"This first collection is a breath of meltemi, (wind) blowing away the stuffiness of so much current poetry…It is easy to see him following in Seferis's footsteps but in the landscape of our own time…There is sometimes a nicely melancholy tone to Papadopoulos's work which puts him in the great tradition of poetic sorrows. But the elegance and flair in these poems makes the reader look forward to his next volume. Leviathan is wise to publish him." nne Born, Tears in the Fence "…When I first read Lost Days by Stephanos Papadopoulos, I was struck not only by the quality of the poetry itself but also by the atmosphere of universality that permeates the book. While the diction remains American, the poems move with great ease from Paris to Greece, to Sweden to New York. This tone and attitude denote of course, not a school of art but a testimony of a life's experience."

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke ( el, Κατερίνα Αγγελάκη-Ρουκ; 22 February 1939 – 21 January 2020) was a Greek poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as ...

"…A streetwise, well-traveled 'penseroso'. He has a distinctive body of subject matter. He has a sharp eye…work so exceptionally rich in atmosphere and observation." obert Saxton, Poetry Review "...In his poetry, the melancholy of the modern finds its beauty in loss itself. Papadopoulos catches this beauty in poem after poem, while his poetry swims for joy in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Aegean. This beautiful contradiction makes otel-Dieua great pleasure to read and reread..." tanley Moss

Awards

The 2014 Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer's Prize Civitella Ranieri Fellowship 2010

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Papadopoulos, Stephanos 1976 births Living people People from North Carolina American male poets American writers of Greek descent 21st-century American poets 21st-century American male writers