In order to ensure your online participation in the event, please fill in the form available here.
An online creative creative writing event with the title
'A Celebration of Creativity: Christopher Bakken's AUTH Poetry Workshop'
will take place on Friday January 21st, 2022,
with the participation of
Dr. Christopher Bakken
(Professor, Allegheny College, US; Fulbright Scholar)
and his
Creative Writing Class
(Kyriaki Arnaouti; Anastasia Aggeliki Karypidou; Antonios Kitsios; Charitini Lekou; Lydia Makri;
Artemis Maragoudaki; Panagiota Paraskevi Menekou; Maria Petasi; Eirini Polychronaki; Alex Reiners; Anna Sakali;
Alexandra Stefanidou; Vassislios Fragios; Chrysoula Chatziandreou; Virabyan Vuzan)
The workshop will be held between 18:45-20:30 via the ZOOM platform
Connection time via ZOOM: 18:30
Language of the workshop: English.
**A certificate of attendance will be provided**
In order to ensure your online participation in the event, please fill in the form available here.
There are certain online spaces available. The ZOOM LINK to be used for the event will be sent to everyone registered the day before (20/01/2021).
This event is organized by the Creative Workshop Series 'Transparent Windows' (School of English, AUTh).
Event Coordinator: Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou (trapatz@enl.auth.gr)
For any further inquiries, do send your emails to: trapatz@enl.auth.gr (Tatiani Rapatzikou) and svergopo@enl.auth.gr (Stavroula Vergopoulou).
ΕVENT ABSTRACT
The Transparent Windows workshop series will feature poetry readings by the participants in Christopher Bakken’s poetry workshop at AUTH.
Prof. Bakken will offer some introductory remarks and then the workshop participants will each read two poems from their final portfolio. A Q&A with the instructor and participants will follow.
BIO INFORMATION of CREATIVE WRITING PROFESSOR:
Christopher Bakken is the author of three books of poetry--Eternity & Oranges, Goat Funeral, and After Greece--as well as the culinary memoir, Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table. He also co-translated The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios. Bakken’s work has been translated into Greek, Romania, Bulgarian, and Polish. He is currently serving as a Fulbright Scholar at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and he holds the Frederick F. Seely Chair in English at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. Each summer, he serves as the director of Writing Workshops in Greece on the island of Thasos.
