Olga Broumas

Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949, Hermoupolis) is a Greek poet, resident in the United States.

Biography

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 earned her bachelor's degree in architecture. She later went on to earn a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Oregon.

Her first collection of poems, Beginning with O, contains erotic poems toward her women lovers.^[1] Broumas was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series^[2] in 1977, the first non-native speaker of English to receive this award. 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.

Bibliography

Collections

• Beginning with O (Yale, 1977).
• Soie Sauvage (Copper Canyon Press, 1979).
• Pastoral Jazz (Copper Canyon Press, 1983).
• With Jane Miller: Black Holes, Black Stockings (Wesleyan, 1985).
• Perpetua (Copper Canyon Press, 1989).
• With T. Begley: 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