Olga Broumas
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Olga Broumas (born 1949), is the author of 7 books of poetry, collected in RAVE: 1975-1999, and 4 books of translations of the Greek Nobel Laureate poet Odysseas Elytis, collected in EROS, EROS, EROS, as well as a CD recording of parts of the above, called Olga Broumas: A Reader's Companion. She is also known for the innovative practice of co-authoring poetry collections.
Born and raised in Greece, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania; she chose to earn her Bachelor's degree in architecture. She later went on to earn a Master's degree in creative writing from the University of Oregon.
Broumas was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1977, the first non-native speaker of English to do so. Other honors have included a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995. She spends her summers on Cape Cod, where she, in the Eighties, founded and taught at a school for female artists called Freehand, Inc.
[edit] Collections
- Beginning with O (Yale, 1977).
- Soie Sauvage (Copper Canyon, 1979).
- Pastoral Jazz (Copper Canyon, 1983).
- With Jane Miller: Black Holes, Black Stockings (Wesleyan, 1985).
- Perpetua (Copper Canyon, 1989).
- With T. Begley: Sappho’s Gymnasium (Copper Canyon, 1994).
- Rave: Poems, 1975-1999 (Copper Canyon, 1999).
[edit] Translations
- What I Love: Selected Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon, 1986).
- The Little Mariner by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon, 1988).
- Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected and Last Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon,1989).
