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Audio Poem of the DayYour KingdomBy Eleni Sikelianos
2025-05-2501 min
Mindful U at Naropa University109. The Journey of a PoetNew MindfulU Podcast episode: The Journey of a Poet with poet, Naropa Summer Writing Program faculty, and Brown University professor Eleni Sikelianos.
In this episode, Eleni shares the unconventional path that led her to a life of poetry—from hitchhiking around the world to synchronistic events that brought her to Naropa for an MFA. She reflects on how her writing has transformed over the years, the beauty and importance of ecopoetics, the practice of deep listening, her thoughts on AI, and the many unexpected places she draws inspiration from.Special Guest: Eleni Sikelianos.Su...2025-05-2256 min
University of Minnesota PressOur shared needs connect us: Writers respond to the science of animal conservation.Humans are one species on a planet of millions of species. The literary collection Creature Needs is a project that grew out of a need to do something with grievous, anxious energy—an attempt to nourish the soul in a meaningful way, and an attempt to start somewhere specific in the face of big, earthly challenges and changes, to create a polyvocal call to arms about animal extinction and habitat loss and the ways our needs are interconnected. The book’s editors, Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, and Susan Tacent, are joined here in conversation.More about the book...2025-01-2144 min
Mange Tes MotsÉpisode Hors-série - jardin de Mauvaises Langues pour l'autre printemps des poésiesNotre épisode hors-série est là ! Pour contrer la sinistrose brune ambiante, il nous tenait à coeur d'inviter des personnes qui contribuent à faire circuler et vivre la poésie contemporaine, en leur proposant de nous faire découvrir une voix importante pour elleux. Ensemble nous faisons bourgeonner un autre printemps, le nôtre : 3’08” Alex-ia Tamecylia (Langue de lutte) lit : Mag Lévêque, Les coupables innocentes, Blast, 202310’01” Héloïse Brézillon lit 6 extraits numérotés par ses soins : Léa Rivière, « Armes molles », L’odeur des pierres mouillées, Éd. du Com...2024-05-191h 53
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily1007: To Do: Write Cephalopod PoemToday’s poem is To Do: Write Cephalopod Poem by Eleni Sikelianos. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem beautifully speaks to the notion of writing toward a future self, and understands that the echoes, even, of one’s breathing, are found in patterns of our thinking.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp2023-11-2705 min
Shadow // YaddoBlue Is the CureExplore liminal worlds with three phenomenal Yaddo artists: Painter Elliott Green and the writer and artist Chris Rush on landscapes of the mind, blue suede shoes, outsider empathy and more. Plus: Eleni Sikelianos performs an excerpt of the title poem from her latest collection, Your Kingdom. Contributing artists: Joseph Keckler, Last Train Home, Claude Debussy, Josef Sikelianos and Kat White.2023-07-2029 min
LIVE! From City LightsCoffee House Press Extravaganza with LaTasha N. Nevada-Diggs, Eleni Sikelianos, and Anne WaldmanCity Lights presents LaTasha N. Nevada-Diggs, Eleni Sikelianos, and Anne Waldman reading new poetry and celebrating their three new books of poetry from Coffee House Press: "Village" by LaTasha N. Nevada-Diggs – "Your Kingdom" by Eleni Sikelianos – "Bard, Kinetic" by Anne Waldman. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis.
You can purchase copies of "Village" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/general-poetry/village-4/
"Your Kingdom" here: https://citylights.com/general-poetry/your-kingdom/
And "Bard, Kinetic" here: https://citylights.com/general-poetry/bard-kinetic/
To learn more about the authors, visit: https://citylights.com/events/coffee-house-press-extravaganza-with-latasha-nevada-diggs-eleni-sykelianos-and-anne-waldman/
Coffee House Pres...2023-05-191h 26
LIVE! From City LightsNew Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa ArchiveCity Lights in conjunction with Naropa University and Nightboat Books present Anne Waldman with Emma Gomis, joined by Alan Gilbert, Cedar Sigo, and Eleni Sikelianos, celebrating the publication of "New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive," edited by Anne Waldman with Emma Gomis and published by Nightboat Books. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis.
You can purchase copies of "New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/story-anthologies/new-weathers-poetics-from-the-naropa-a/
Anne Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, literary curator, cultural activist, has been a prolific and active poet...2023-04-111h 01
Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastSchitt Poetry (Moira Rose Edition)Poetry & fruit wine, bebè! We recommend watching episode 6 of season 1, “Wine & Roses.” You’ll remember the experience! Troye Sivan Mellet is a South African-born Australian singer-songwriter, actor and YouTuber. Watch the official video for Sivan’s song, “Bloom” here. While Aaron cites another music writer’s critique of “Bloom” as a song about bottoming, I prefer this close-reading of the song, written by one Bobby Finger for Jezebel. Watch Eduardo C. Corral’s reading at the 2021 Sewanee Writers’ Conference—the first reading he gave from Guillotine (~15 minutes).Read Eleanor Lerman’s poem “The Mystery of Meteors”...2022-08-0828 min
Kenyon Review Out LoudPoetry from January-February 2020Poetry from Daniel Borzutzky, Carolina Ebeid, Christopher Kondrich, Philip Metres, Roger Reeves, Evie Shockley, and Eleni Sikelianos2020-01-0722 min
How to Discover Free Audiobook in Drama & Poetry, PoetryThe Muse in the Body by Catherine Bartlett - editor | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: The Muse in the Body
Author: Catherine Bartlett - editor
Narrator: Anne Waldman, Olga Broumas, Brenda Coultas, Julie Patton, Eleni Sikélianòs, Jorie Graham, Marina Tsvetayeva, Anne Sexton
Format: Original Recording
Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-23-17
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry
Summary:
How have women poets approached the question of eros throughout history? This gathering explores the poetry of both physical and spiritual longing and fulfillment from ancient Greece to New York's East Village. Sappho, Mirabai, H.D., Emily Dickinson, Mary Ol...2017-08-231h 10Discover Most Popular Audiobooks in Drama & Poetry, PoetryThe Muse in the Body Audiobook by Catherine Bartlett - editorListen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go tohttp://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: The Muse in the Body
Subtitle: A Collection of Erotic Poetry
Author: Catherine Bartlett - editor
Narrator: Anne Waldman, Olga Broumas, Brenda Coultas, Julie Patton, Eleni Sikélianòs, Jorie Graham, Marina Tsvetayeva, Anne Sexton
Format: Original Recording
Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-23-17
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
How have women poets approached the question of eros throughout history? This gathering explores the poetry of both physical and spiritual longing and fulfillment from ancient Greece to New Yo...2017-08-231h 10
First DraftFirst Draft - Laird HuntLaird Hunt is the award-winning author of a book of short stories, mock parables and histories, The Paris Stories and six novels: The Impossibly, Indiana, Indiana, The Exquisite, Ray of the Star, and Kind One, and Neverhome. His writings, reviews and translations have appeared in the United States and abroad in, among other places, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Bomb, Bookforum, Grand Street, The Believer, Fence, Conjunctions, Brick, Mentor, Inculte, and Zoum Zoum. Currently on faculty in the University of Denver’s Creative Writing Program, where he edits the Denver Quarterly, he has had resi...2014-10-2729 min
Unlock Full Audiobook in Fiction, HistoricalKind One by Laird Hunt | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Kind One
Author: Laird Hunt
Narrator: Nick Sullivan, Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-24-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Summary:
As a teenage girl, Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother's second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm "ninety miles from nowhere." In the shadows of the lush Kentucky landscape, Ginny discovers the empty promises of Linus' "paradise" - a place where the charms of her husband fall away to reveal a troubled man and cruel slave owner. Ginny...2013-09-244h 25
UCSD New Writing SeriesEleni Sikelianos and Laird HuntPerformed February 20, 2013Eleni Sikelianos and Laird Hunt2001-02-211h 30