Olga Broumas

Professor of the Practice Emerita of English

Departments/Programs

English

Degrees

University of Oregon, M.F.A.
University of Pennsylvania, B.A.

Expertise

Poetry.
Studies of Buddhism, Hinduism, Movement therapies, Meditative Movement, Translation, Sanskrit, Applied Ethics in Poetry, Anatomy & Neuroscience as they related to enhanced health of creative capacity.

Profile

Current studies: Translation, Sanskrit, Buddhist & Vedic literatures, Anatomy, Yoga Philosophy & Practice, Performance, Kirtan, Vocal expression, Ekphrasis, Syllabic economies, Emblematic Lyric ~ Webpage

Awards and Honors

National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship (2009 - 2011)

Norman Fund Grant (2006 - 2007)

Louis Dembitz Award for Excellence in Teaching (2005)

Lambda Poetry Award (2000)

Witter Bynner Translation Grant (1991)

Guggenheim Fellowship (1981)

Vermont Council on Arts Fellowship (1980)

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1979)

Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship (1978)

Yale Younger Poets Award (1977)

Fulbright Travel Grant (1967)

Scholarship

Broumas, Olga. WHAT SEA? 20 poems by Kiki Dimoula, translated from the Greek. 2011. The Drunken Boat, (www.thedrunkenboat.com/kikidimoula/html), an online journal of poetry, translation and poetics., (Featured Chapbook 28 pages).

Broumas, Olga. "Poems by Odysseus Elytis and Kiki Dimoula." The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. Ed. Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley, Karen VanDyck. Norton, 2010. Pagess 561-564, 608-611.

Broumas, Olga, Poem of the Week. The Choir. Narrative Magazine: http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems-week-2009-2010

Broumas, Olga, Poem of the Week. The Monogram, by Odysseas Elytis, translated from the Greek. Narrative Magazine: http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems-week-2009-2010

Broumas, Olga. "Caritas." Poems from the Women's Movement. vol. 28. Ed. Honor Moore. NYC: The Library of America, American Poets Project, 2009. Pages 150-156.

Broumas, Olga. "5 poems." dekata.gr Trans. Christos Tsiamis. (2007)

Broumas, Olga. "Featured Poet: Opening Muscle and Theme Music." www.thedrunkenboat.com. Winter 2006 ed. vol. Spring 2007 Ed. Rebecca Seiferle. www.thedrunkenboat.com, 2007

Broumas, Olga. 5 poems. 2007. Casa Libre de la Solana, Tucson, Arizona. (Anthology).

Broumas, Olga. Olga Broumas: A Reader's Companion; Compact Disc. 2001.

Broumas, Olga. Rave: Poems, 1975-1999. Copper Canyon Press, 2000.

Broumas, Olga, trans.. EROS, EROS, EROS: Poems, Selected and Last of Odysseas Elytis. Copper Canyon Press, 1998.

Broumas, Olga. Ithaca: Little Summer in Winter; with T Begley, (chapbook, limited edition). 1996.

Broumas, Olga, with T. Begley. Open Papers: Selected Essays of Odysseas Elytis. trans., 1995.

Broumas, Olga, with T. Begley. Sappho's Gymnasium (poetry). Copper Canyon Press, 1995.

Broumas, Olga. Sappho's Gymnasium; collaborative poems with T Begley. Copper Canyon Press, 1995.

Broumas, Olga. Helen Groves; with T Begley, (chapbook, limited edition). 1994.

Broumas, Olga. Perpetua. Copper Canyon Press, 1989.

Broumas, Olga, trans.. THE LITTLE MARINER, by Odysseas Elytis. Copper Canyon Press, 1988.

Broumas, Olga. What I Love. selected translations of Odysseas Elytis, 1986.

Broumas, Olga. Black Holes, Black Stockings; collaborative prose-poems with Jane Miller. Wesleyan University Press, 1985.

Broumas, Olga. Pastoral Jazz. Copper Canyon Press, 1983.

Broumas, Olga. Soie Sauvage. Copper Canyon Press, 1980.

Broumas, Olga. Beginning With O. Yale University Press, 1977.

Broumas, Olga. Caritas (chapbook). Jackrabbit Press, 1976.

Broumas, Olga. Restlessness, (in Greek). Alvin Redman Hellas, 1967.