With great pleasure, I want to share with you the new release of our poetry book anthology GLIMPSES OF OUR WORLD. It is bilingual (Greek and English) and the Hellenic Writers' Group of Washington DC (HWGW) poets and I (as editor and poet) published it in 2020.
It began 2-3 years ago as an idea of mine. It was adopted with enthusiasm by the writers' group. Thirteen poets from HWGW engaged in this effort. We were fortunate to have Dr. Polyvia Parara from the Modern Greek Studies Program of the University of Maryland help edit the Greek poems, and we also received assistance from Magdalene Kantartzis, president of H.S. Prometheas. Through painstaking detail, we went through every poem and edited them. Several others have also aided us during the review process.
The topics of the poems varied from loss, to philosophy, to nature, to love. The flowers in the book cover represent the poets. The painting is by a good friend of mine, Maria Costas.
UPDATE
We were fortunate to arrange a GLIMPSES OF OUR WORLD poetry recital on April 3, 2021 through Zoom, and with the help of my son Anthony, who is the technical aide and event manager. I moderated the recital and Dr. Polyvia Parara of the Modern Greek Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, graciously accepted the invitation to present the introduction. She spoke in Greek about poetry and the Greek poet Cavafy. Most of the HWGW poets attended and recited 2-3 poems. A poem by Dr. Peter Paras, who passed away in 2020, was also recited by Antigone Petrides in his memory.
Click here to listen to the poetry recital from GLIMPSES OF OUR WORLD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5O6tW1RU9s
Click here to get a copy of GLIMPSES OF OUR WORLD: https://www.virtualbookworm.com/collections/poetry-short-stories-screenplays/products/glimpses-of-our-world-a-billingual-anthology-of-greek-american-poetry
