Eleni Sikelianos


Eleni Sikélianòs is an American experimental poet with a particular interest in scientific idiom.

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 Colorado with her husband, Laird Hunt, and daughter Eva Grace.

Awards

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