The VPR Poem of the Week is Adrianne Kalfopoulou’s “Holy Agony,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2004-2005 issue (Volume VI, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.Adrianne Kalfopoulou’s first full-length collection of poetry, Wild Greens, was published by Red Hen Press in 2002. Fig won the 2000 Women’s Poetry Chapbook Contest from the Sarasota Poetry Theater Press. Her book of nonfiction, Broken Greek: A Language to Belong, was released by Plain View Press in 2006. Kalfopoulou has also written on 19th- and 20th-century texts by Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson for various scholarly journals, and she has published a volume of criticism, The Untidy House: A Discussion of the Ideology of the American Dream in the Culture’s Female Discourses. Her journal publications include poems in Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Drunken Boat, Elixir, and Verse Daily, as well as in Kindred Terraces, an anthology of American poets in Greece. Adrianne Kalfopoulou teaches creative writing and literature in Athens.
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