Eleni Sikelianos

Eleni Sikelianos
Eleni Sikelianos -June 2018
Alma mater	Naropa University
Occupation	Poet
Spouse	Laird Hunt
Children	1 daughter
Relatives	Angelos Sikelianos (great-grandfather)

Eleni Sikélianòs (born 1965) is an American experimental poet with a particular interest in scientific idiom. She currently serves as Professor of Literary arts at Brown University.

Early life

Sikélianòs is the great-granddaughter of the renowned Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos, a former candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Eva Palmer-Sikelianos. She was raised in California. She graduated from the Naropa Institute with an M.F.A.

Career

Sikélianòs taught at Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City and teaches Literature and Bard College's Clemente Program. She co-ran the Wednesday Night Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project in St. Mark's Church. She teaches at Naropa, and the University of Denver, where Eryn Green was one of her students.

Her work has appeared in Grand Street, Rattapallax, Sulfur, Chicago Review, and Fence. In an interview she gave with the California Journal of Poetics, Sikelianos discusses how zoology, cell biology, and marine biology became important to her early poetic sensibility. She cites Lynne Margulis’ work in evolutionary symbiosis and the work of D’Arcy Wentworth Thomas as influential."

Personal life

She currently lives in Rhode Island with her husband, Laird Hunt, and daughter Eva Grace.

Awards

• 2002 National Poetry Series (for The Monster Lives)
• Seeger Fellow Princeton University
• Yaddo residency
• Maison des écrivains étrangers residency in Brittany,
• Fulbright Writer's Fellowship in Greece
• New York Foundation for the Arts Award in Nonfiction Literature
• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Writing
• New York Council for the Arts Translation Award
• James D. Phelan Award for Blue Guide

Works

• Make Yourself Happy, (Coffee House Press, 2017)
• The Loving Detail of the Living and the Dead (Coffee House Press, 2013)
• Body Clock (Coffee House Press, 2008)
• The California poem. Coffee House Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-56689-162-2.
• The Monster Lives of Boys & Girls. Green Integer. December 1, 2003. ISBN 978-1-931243-67-4.
• Earliest Worlds (Coffee House Press, 2001)
• The Book of Tendons 1997
• The Lover's Numbers
• To Speak While Dreaming 1993

Memoir

• "from The Book of Jon". Ploughshares. Winter 2002–2003. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007.
• "from Body Clock". Tarpaulin Sky. Fall 2006.
• The Book of Jon (Nonfiction; City Lights, 2004).
• You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek) (Coffee House Press, 2014).

Chapbooks

• From Blue Guide (1999)
• The Lover's Numbers
• Poetics of the X (1995)

Criticism

• Elizabeth Willis, ed. (2008). "Life Pops from a Music Box Shaped Like a Gun". Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-58729-698-7.

Anthologies

• Chiotis, Theodoros, ed. (2015). Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis. Penned in the Margins. ISBN 9781908058249
• Schneiderman, Davis, ed. (2013). The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. &NOW Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0982315644
• Anne Waldman; Lisa Birman, eds. (2004). "Yo, Self / Yo, Maximus". Civil disobediences: poetics and politics in action. Coffee House Press. ISBN 978-1-56689-158-5.
• Peter H. Conners, ed. (2006). PP/FF: an anthology. Starcherone Books. ISBN 978-0-9703165-1-6.
• Don Schofield, ed. (2004). Kindled terraces: American poets in Greece. Truman State University Press. ISBN 978-1-931112-37-6.

External links

• "Eleni Sikelianos in conversation with Jesse Morse", Jacket 33, July 2007
• "Henry Gould on Eleni Sikelianos from Blue Guide", Poetry New York, 1999, 36 pp