Unobtrusively but decisively, Stephanos Papadopoulos' work is informed by various cultures: American, Greek, ancient and modern, French and English as distinguished from American. He follows other poets, but mostly he follows his heart. In his poetry the melancholy of the modern finds its beauty in loss itself. Papadopoulos catches this beauty in poem after poem, while his poetry swims for joy in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Aegean. This beautiful contradiction makes Hotel Dieu a great pleasure to read and reread.
Stephanos Papadopoulos is the author of Hôtel-Dieu, (Sheep Meadow Press), and Lost Days, (Leviathan Press, UK / Rattapallax Press, NY). He is editor and co-translator (with Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke) of Derek Walcott's Selected Poems published by Kastianiotis Press, 2007. He is currently completing, The Black Sea, a book length collection about the Black Sea Greeks of Asia Minor for which he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship for 2010. He lives in New York and Athens,Greece.
Stephanos was born in North Carolina and raised in Paris and Athens. Educated in the US and Edinburgh, he holds a degree in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His poetry has been published in numerous periodicals such as The Yale Review, Poetry Review, Stand Magazine, The New Republic and many others. In 1998 was invited to Derek Walcott's Rat Island Foundation on St. Lucia. He has read at Oxford University for the United Nation's Dialogue Among Civilizations poetry festival as well as the North Carolina Literary Festival, the National Arts Club in NY, The Julliard School, The NY Public Library, The University of Milano, The German-American Institute in Heidelberg, Crossing Borders festival, Amsterdam and numerous other events.
In 2004 he was selected by the Fundacion Neruda to read at the Pablo Neruda centennial in Santiago, Chile. His poetry has been translated into Greek by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, and published in Greece's leading journal, Poetry. Selections have also been translated into Spanish by Rodrigo Rojas at the Biblioteca National , Santiago and into Italian by Matteo Campagnoli. He has translated works of Greek poets Yiannis Ritsos, Anghelaki-Rooke and Kostas Karyotakis. He is editor and co-translator of the Selected Poems of Derek Walcott into Greek for Kastaniotis Publications 2007.
