Olga Broumas

Olga BroumasProfessor Emerita of the Practice of English

Selected Publications

  • "Jamais Vu," with T Begley. The Lune, 2016

  • "What Sea?" — 20 poems, translated from the Greek poet Kiki Dimoula: a featured chapbook in the translation issue of "The Drunken Boat."

  • "Olga Broumas: A Listener's Companion: CD of readings from Rave and Eros, Eros, Eros." Copper Canyon Press, 2000.

  • Rave book cover "Rav — Poems, 1975-99." Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1999.

  • "Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected and Last Poems of Odysseas Elytis, translation." Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1997.

  • "Sappho's Gymnasium." Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1994. (collaborative poetry with T Begley)

  • "Perpetua." Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1989.

  • "The Little Mariner." Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1988. (translations from the Greek or poet Odysseas Elytis)

  • "What I Love." Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1986. (translations from the Greek or poet Odysseas Elytis)

  • "Black Holes, Black Stockings" (coauthored with Jane Miller). Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1985.

  • "Pastoral Jazz." Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1983.

  • "Soie Sauvage." Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1980.

  • "Beginning with O." New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

  • "Caritas," 1976.

  • "Restlessness," 1976, Alvin Redman, Hellas (in Greek).

  • "If I Yes" (audio tape), 1981, reissued as CD 2007, Watershed Foundation.

  • Numerous journals and anthologies.

Current Projects

Preparing a manuscript of Selected Translations of the Greek poet Kiki Dimoula, which was honored with a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship.

Currently working on a new collection of poems, and a book of translations from English into Modern Greek of W.C. Williams, W.S. Merwin, Stanley Kunitz, et al.

Selected Courses Taught

  • Poetry: Beginner's Ear (ENG 39a)

  • Directed Writing Poetry (ENG 109a)

  • Directed Studies in Current Literature (ENG 117a)

  • The Autobiographical Imagination (ENG 19b)