Podcasts about cavafy

durée : 00:06:04 - L'Instant poésie - Constantin Cavafy invite à remettre en cause les fondements hérités. Pour lui, la vraie vigueur ne réside pas dans l'obéissance, mais dans le courage de déconstruire pour mieux comprendre. - invités : Wajdi Mouawad Auteur, metteur en scène, comédien et directeur du théâtre national de la Colline

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.liveMana Afsari is a writer and sometime contributor to Wisdom of Crowds, whose career has taken her from the RAND Corporation, to a job as an assistant to a great American poet, to the position of Research Associate at the Aspen Institute's Philosophy and Society Initiative. In January, Mana published an essay titled, “Last Boys at the Beginning of History,” a fascinating reported piece about the young men with intellectual ambitions who joined the National Conservative movement and voted for Donald Trump. The essay went viral and earned praise from both liberals and conservatives. Damon Linker of Notes from the Middleground called it “a remarkable essay that's generated considerable (and well-justified) buzz.”Mana joins Santiago Ramos and Shadi Hamid to discuss the essay and the general question of why ambitious, inquisitive and searching young men are attracted to the MAGA movement. “I am not a right wing zoologist,” Mana says, but it is important to understand where these men are coming form. These young intellectuals are not your average Trump voter. They are not the “DOGE boys,” either. But they are becoming a significant part of the GOP leadership class. Shadi wants to know why an interest in culture and ideas has led these men toward right wing spaces. Mana responds that right wing spaces, at least until recently, had a less politicized approach to culture. Many of these young men are interested in things, like history or cartography, which some suggest are “right-coded.” “Most things that are supposedly right-coded should not be right-coded,” Mana says.And what do they think of Trump? “They don't think of Trump as Odoacer, they see him as Julius Caesar. They don't see him as a barbarian, but as a restorer of the republic.”In our bonus section for paid subscribers, Shadi talks about going to a recent right wing party and says it was “a safe space, it was inclusive”; Santiago asks Shadi if he ever went to right wing parties during the War on Terror; Mana distinguishes the desire for free and open discussion versus the desire to “say whatever you want,” i.e., slurs; and Santiago argues that the Israel-Palestine conflict has made all political sides rediscover the importance of freedom of speech.Required Reading and Listening:* Mana Afsari, “Last Boys at the Beginning of History” (The Point).* Santiago Ramos, “Let Us Now Praise the Supermen” (WoC).* Santiago Ramos, “Do You Know What Time It Is?” (WoC).* Damir Marusic, “Barbarians at the Gate” (WoC).* Shadi Hamid, “Why Half of America is Cheering for Chaos” (Washington Post). * Wisdom of Crowds podcast episode, “The Masculine World is Adrift” (WoC).* Henry Kissinger quote about Trump (Financial Times).* Vittoria Elliot, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover” (Wired).* Norman Podhoretz, Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt and Norman Mailer (Amazon). * C. P. Cavafy, “Waiting for the Barbarians” (Poetry Foundation). * Odoacer (Britannica).* Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, What are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice (Amazon). This post is part of our collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Governance and Markets.Free preview video:Full video for paid subscribers below:

In this episode of NBN host, Hollay Ghadery speaks with the incomparable Toronto poet Kirby in an exclusive sampler of spectacular Kirby poetry. Kirby and Hollay talk about community and about Kirby's work including their most recent poetry collection, She (Knife|Fork|Book, 2024) as well as Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021). Kirby also read from some of their new work. "She is a capacious city of rich human habitation, where elation is every day's caring infusion. Her cityscapes are painted deftly—in few words, in pauses, in juxtapositions, in fond attentions, in breath and the difficulty of breath, by a poet who knows deeply that life is fragile and that age comes and alters us. She says: the world loves us back when we love it. Flowers, streets, lovers, skies, persons, walks, in/fusions. She is joy's pronoun!" —ERÍN MOURE, Theophylline A Poetic Migration Via the Modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers—real and imagined—conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word “queer” for those who self-proclaim the authority of their own bodies in defiance of church and state, Kirby pays tribute to gay touchstones while embodying both their work and joy. From gazing upon street boys with constant companion C.P. Cavafy, to end of day observances with Frank O'Hara, to mowing Walt Whitman's grass, Poetry Is Queer is a hybrid-genre memoir like no other. About KIRBY: KIRBY's work includes Last Licks (Anstruther Press, 2024) Behold (2023), a stage adaption of Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021), What Do You Want to Be Called? (Anstruther Press, 2020), & This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press, 2019). Their column, “The First Time” is a regular feature at Send My Love To Anyone. They are the publisher at knife | fork | book kirbyshe.com About Hollay Ghadery: Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children's book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is the host of the 105.5 FM Bookclub, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League's BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode of NBN host, Hollay Ghadery speaks with the incomparable Toronto poet Kirby in an exclusive sampler of spectacular Kirby poetry. Kirby and Hollay talk about community and about Kirby's work including their most recent poetry collection, She (Knife|Fork|Book, 2024) as well as Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021). Kirby also read from some of their new work. "She is a capacious city of rich human habitation, where elation is every day's caring infusion. Her cityscapes are painted deftly—in few words, in pauses, in juxtapositions, in fond attentions, in breath and the difficulty of breath, by a poet who knows deeply that life is fragile and that age comes and alters us. She says: the world loves us back when we love it. Flowers, streets, lovers, skies, persons, walks, in/fusions. She is joy's pronoun!" —ERÍN MOURE, Theophylline A Poetic Migration Via the Modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers—real and imagined—conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word “queer” for those who self-proclaim the authority of their own bodies in defiance of church and state, Kirby pays tribute to gay touchstones while embodying both their work and joy. From gazing upon street boys with constant companion C.P. Cavafy, to end of day observances with Frank O'Hara, to mowing Walt Whitman's grass, Poetry Is Queer is a hybrid-genre memoir like no other. About KIRBY: KIRBY's work includes Last Licks (Anstruther Press, 2024) Behold (2023), a stage adaption of Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021), What Do You Want to Be Called? (Anstruther Press, 2020), & This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press, 2019). Their column, “The First Time” is a regular feature at Send My Love To Anyone. They are the publisher at knife | fork | book kirbyshe.com About Hollay Ghadery: Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children's book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is the host of the 105.5 FM Bookclub, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League's BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

In this episode of NBN host, Hollay Ghadery speaks with the incomparable Toronto poet Kirby in an exclusive sampler of spectacular Kirby poetry. Kirby and Hollay talk about community and about Kirby's work including their most recent poetry collection, She (Knife|Fork|Book, 2024) as well as Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021). Kirby also read from some of their new work. "She is a capacious city of rich human habitation, where elation is every day's caring infusion. Her cityscapes are painted deftly—in few words, in pauses, in juxtapositions, in fond attentions, in breath and the difficulty of breath, by a poet who knows deeply that life is fragile and that age comes and alters us. She says: the world loves us back when we love it. Flowers, streets, lovers, skies, persons, walks, in/fusions. She is joy's pronoun!" —ERÍN MOURE, Theophylline A Poetic Migration Via the Modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers—real and imagined—conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word “queer” for those who self-proclaim the authority of their own bodies in defiance of church and state, Kirby pays tribute to gay touchstones while embodying both their work and joy. From gazing upon street boys with constant companion C.P. Cavafy, to end of day observances with Frank O'Hara, to mowing Walt Whitman's grass, Poetry Is Queer is a hybrid-genre memoir like no other. About KIRBY: KIRBY's work includes Last Licks (Anstruther Press, 2024) Behold (2023), a stage adaption of Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021), What Do You Want to Be Called? (Anstruther Press, 2020), & This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press, 2019). Their column, “The First Time” is a regular feature at Send My Love To Anyone. They are the publisher at knife | fork | book kirbyshe.com About Hollay Ghadery: Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children's book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is the host of the 105.5 FM Bookclub, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League's BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

I'm all over the shop on the podcast today... I got a tattoo on my butt on Thursday night... I'm $12k in debt... I saw the new Captain America movie on Sunday night and I absolutely hated it... my money from Perth hasn't come through yet... tickets for Adelaide are still selling well... I'm leaving Australia in 5 months. I can't seem to relax and just settle.   I've been watching this Australian show 'Mr Inbetween' on the recommendation of a friend and it is absolutely fantastic! Not only is it funny and dark, it is also recognisably Australian, set in Australia with Australian people as it's characters. Also the guy who created has worked for like twenty years to get this thing made, and he stars in it and is absolutely incredible. What a triumph of artistic vision! This stands in such stark contrast to the utter contempt in which 'Captain America' holds its audience. I sat through two hours of explosions and violent thudding and was bored the entire time - a truly pathetic offering.   I'm reading 'Odyssey' by Stephen Fry, and there's a poem at the start called 'Ithaca' by C. P. Cavafy that has really resonated with me this week. It begins, "When you start on your way to Ithaca // pray that the journey be long", and goes on to describe a life full of "countless summer mornings"; full of adventure and discovery. He says "Always keep Ithaca fixed in your mind ... Yet do not hurry the journey at all".   I take inspiration from the story of Scott Ryan who created 'Mr Inbetween' - he has Ithaca fixed in his mind. I also take inspiration from everyone who worked on 'Captain America', these poor souls lost at sea. I try to remember not to hurry my journey:   "... better that it lasts for many years and you arrive an old man on the island, rich from all that you have gained on the way, not counting on Ithaca for riches. For Ithaca gave you the splendid voyage: without her you would never have embarked. She has nothing more to give you now."

durée : 00:06:54 - En attendant les barbares de Constantin Cavafy

Spill all the tea but spill it slant with the Breaking Form queens in this episode dedicated to the art of secrets.If you'd like to support Breaking Form:Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTESMadonna's "Secret" was the lead single off of her sixth album, Bedtime Stories. Watch the video here. Read Sharon Olds's "Killing My Sister's Fish"Len Roberts's "The Problem" appeared in APR March/April 2001 and can also be found in The Silent Singer.Julia Kasdorf's "Eve's Curse" appears in her book Eve's Striptease. You can watch her give a reading (from As Is) here. Read Emily Dickinson's 260. And check out her handwritten copy here. Dickinson published TEN poems and a letter in her lifetime. Aaron reads the July 17, 1996 entry from Letters to Wendy's and you can read the text of that here. Read CP Cavafy's "The Afternoon Sun" (trans. Edmund Keeley). Cavafy's complete literary corpus includes the 154 poems that constitute his poetic canon; his 75 unpublished or "hidden" poems, that were found completed in his archive or in the hands of friends, and weren't published until 1968; his 37 rejected poems, which he published but later renounced; his 30 incomplete poems that were found unfinished in his archive; as well as numerous other prose poems, essays, and letters.[16] According to the poet's instructions, his poems are classified into three categories: historical, philosophical, and hedonistic or sensual.[10]Here's W.H. Auden's "If I Could Tell You" & you can hear him read it.Read Laura Kasischke's "Bike Ride with Older Boys" (from her book Dance and Disappear). Check out Cathy Linh Che's "The German word for dream is trauma."

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comStephen Fry is a legendary British actor, comedian, director, writer, and narrator. His TV shows include “A Bit of Fry & Laurie,” “Jeeves and Wooster,” and “Blackadder,” and his films include Wilde, Gosford Park, and Love & Friendship. His Broadway career includes “Me and My Girl” and “Twelfth Night.” He's produced several documentary series, including “Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive,” and he's the president of Mind, a mental health charity. He has written 17 books, including three autobiographies, and he narrated all seven of the Harry Potter books. You can find him on Substack at The Fry Corner — subscribe!For two clips of our convo — on the profound pain of bipolar depression, and whether the EU diminishes Englishness — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: growing up in Norfolk; his mom's Jewish ancestry in Central Europe; her dad facing anti-Semitism after fighting in WWI and coming to England to train farmers; embracing Englishness; family members lost to the Holocaust; Disraeli; the diversity of Tory PMs; Stephen's wayward youth; wanting to become a priest as a teen; growing up gay in England; the profound influence of Oscar Wilde and his trials; Gore Vidal on puritanism; Cavafy; Auden; E.M. Forster; Orwell; Stephen's bipolarism; the dark lows and manic highs; my mum's lifelong struggle with that illness; dementia; her harrowing final days; transgenerational trauma; Larkin's “This Be the Verse”; theodicy; the shame of mental illness; Gen Z's version of trauma; the way Jesus spoke; St. Francis; the corruption and scandals of the Church; Hitchens; the disruption of Silicon Valley and the GOP; Chesterton's hedge metaphor for conservatism; Burke and Hayek; Oakeshott; coastal elites and populist resentment; the Iraq War and the 2008 financial crisis; Stephen writing jokes for Tony Blair; Brexit and national identity; Boris Johnson; Corbyn and anti-Semitism; Starmer's victory and his emphasis on stability; Labour's new super-majority; and Sunak's graceful concession.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: Lionel Shriver on human limits and resentment, Anne Applebaum on autocrats, Eric Kaufmann on reversing woke extremism, and Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy on animal cruelty. (Van Jones' PR team canceled his planned appearance.) Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

On a narrow street in the old Greek quarter of Alexandria, the world renowned poet and writer Constantine Cavafy created some of the masterpieces that still inspire people across the world today. As of this past May, this home in Alexandria is now open to the public. Together with the Cavafy Archive in Athens, which is home to over 2,000 digitized manuscripts, with poems and handwritten notes, Cavafy's life and work are now accessible to a global audience. Prof. Gonda Van Steen, the Koraes Chair at the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department of Classics at King's College London and a member of the academic committee for the Alexandria Cavafy House, joins me to explore why making Cavafy widely accessible is important, and look at why his work still inspires us today.You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:Onassis Foundation has restored Cavafy House in AlexandriaGreek poet who inspired Forster, Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadowsGreek PM reiterates warning to North MacedoniaCyprus-US traveler data agreement ratified

Amanda Holmes reads C. P. Cavafy's “He Asked About the Quality,” translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you'll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy, was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria. A major figure of modern Greek literature, he is sometimes considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century.-bio via Wikipedia Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

We ask questions to find out the facts, but what if you can't trust the answers, the questions, or the person who's asking the questions? In Constantine P. Cavafy's “Waiting for the Barbarians,” translated by Evan Jones, leaders exercise a sinister kind of violence — they've taken over people's imaginations with showy displays of wealth and privilege, time-wasting ceremony, and fear coursing beneath it all.Constantine P. Cavafy was a Greek-language poet born in Alexandria, Egypt, and he lived from 1863 to 1933. His poetry has been published in numerous collections, including The Complete Poems of Cavafy, The Collected Poems, and The Barbarians Arrive Today.Evan Jones is a Greek-Canadian poet based in Manchester, England. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain, was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, and his British debut, Paralogues, was published in 2012. He is the translator of Constantine Cavafy's The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems & Prose, and his most recent poetry collection is Later Emperors.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.This is the third episode of "Poems as Teachers," a special seven-part miniseries on conflict and the human condition.We're pleased to offer Constantine P. Cavafy's poem, and invite you to read Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound book, or listen back to all our episodes.

Poet Stephen Zerance joins me to talk about Greek poet C.P. Cavafy and four greco-roman films (Sebastiane, Caligula, Alexander, and 300).We talk about homoeroticism in these kinds of films as well as in Cavafy's verse.Follow Stephen onTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/stephnzSubstack: https://stephenzerance.substack.com/ Buy his poetry: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07HS2YXW2/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=fcbef3af-3838-432b-8206-fa7de7875958&ref_=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1We also have previous guests of the pod reading some of Cavafy's poems that we have paired with the films.Zach Langley Chi Chi reads "In Despair"Young Dean reads "The City"Kelby Losack reads "Waiting for the Barbarians"Steff reads "Thermopylae"

Today's poem is Ithaka by C.P. Cavafy.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Harvard, Illinois is among a host of American cities and towns named for locales with more illustrious histories and associations: Paris, Texas; Rome, Maine; Athens, Georgia; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Today's poem makes me think, first, of the city in upstate New York where some of my favorite poets reside. But it takes me next to that birthplace of Odysseus and that symbol of home, an emblematic journey by which we all must psychologically return.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

On this episode, George and Maria, talk about destinations you can visit as a solo traveller. Tune in to learn more & click here to read the dedicated blog post! If you have destinations you think should be included, get in touch is we can come back with a part 2! Chania E-book with 7 day itinerary. Click here to buyPodcast listening:ChaniaChania Q&AThe best of Kefalonia (beach mentioned: Myrtos)Orfia Retreats and GlampingThe Best of SantoriniLefkadaTop Greek Islands without a carBlog posts:Chania - My Eternal ParadiseTop things to do in SantoriniVegan travel in Greece and SantoriniTop Destinations for Non-DriversOther:Homers OdysseyIthaka by C.P. Cavafy and Sean Connery reads ITHAKA | Powerful Life Poem by C.P.CavafyBeach in Ithaki: Gidaki beach.Ferry service for Small Cyclades is Express Skopelitis.Check out the My Greek Island website www.mygreekis.land and give us a follow on instagram @mygreekisland to keep up to date with the My Greek Island adventures, and for those of you visiting Greece remember to tag us for a future feature.If you liked the episode, feel free to leave a rating and review, and to make sure you are notified as soon as future episodes are released, press the subscribe or follow button on the podcast platform of your choice. And if you have any requests for future episodes, feel free to drop us a DM.There are 227 inhabited Greek Islands, which one will YOU visit next?#MGIPODCAST Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Cindy Juyoung Ok talks with Richie Hofmann, whose latest book is A Hundred Lovers (Knopf, 2022), about the ancient tale of Hermias of Iasos which informs Hofmann's poem “Dolphin.” The poem appears in the July/August issue of Poetry alongside “Breed Me,” and we'll hear both on today's episode. Hofmann and Ok reveal they are both “Cavafy heads,” and Hofmann discusses the influence of Robert Mapplethorpe on his poems, as well as why lineation is one of the “erotic touchstones” of poetry.

The Poem Ithaca by Constantine Cavafy:  Since Homer's Odyssey, Ithaca symbolizes the destination of a long journey, the supreme aim that every man tries to fulfill all his life long, the sweet homeland, the eternal calmness, and satisfaction. Many artists and literary people have been inspired by this interpretation of Homer's poem and have given to this small island of the Ionian Sea a special sense. Famous poets have been inspired by Ithaca and have used its name metaphorically on their works. The most famous poem about Ithaca has been written by the renowned Greek poet Constantine Cavafy and is entitled "Ithaka". There he makes an allusion of the legendary journey of Ulysses to the journey of every man through life and suggests that each person is looking for his own Ithaca, his personal supreme gaol.  However, in the end, it is not the goal but the journey that matters, because this journey makes us wise and gives people the richest good: experience, knowledge, and maturity. This poem was written in 1911 and has been translated into many languages since then. Its lyric words and message are touching. Text courtesy of Greeka.com

Anne ChengCollège de FranceHistoire intellectuelle de la ChineAnnée 2022-2023Colloque - Borges et la Chine : Le Corbeau et les Ménards : réécriture, traduction, modernité. Segalen, Cavafy, BorgesColloque organisé le 21 juin 2023 par Anne Cheng, chaire Histoire intellectuelle de la Chine.Intervenant(s) :Haun Saussy, Professeur à l'Université de Chicago (USA)

Recorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 10, 2023. www.poets.org

On what would have been the 160th birthday of the Alexandria-born Greek poet C. P. Cavafy, a week-long festival in New York City, called Archive of Desire, brings together artists from a variety of backgrounds to celebrate his work. The festival's curator Paola Prestini and fellow Alexandrian wordsmith Andre Aciman, author of the novel, Call Me By Your Name, discuss Cavafy's life and legacy.

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Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!C.P. Cavafy is widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. He was born on April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, where his Greek parents had settled in the mid-1850s, and died on the same day in 1933. During his lifetime Cavafy was an obscure poet, living in relative seclusion and publishing little of his work. A short collection of his poetry was privately printed in the early 1900s and reprinted with new verse a few years later, but that was the extent of his published poetry. Instead, Cavafy chose to circulate his verse among friends.Cavafy is the leading poet of the periphery, writing in Greek far from Greek lands. The body of his poetry includes the 154 poems of the “canon”; 37 “repudiated poems,” most of which are juvenilia written in romantic katharevousa; 75 “hidden” poems that were found finished in his papers; and 30 “unfinished” poems. His poems often feature historical figures or creations of the poet's imagination, with frequent references to elements of Homeric, Hellenistic, and Byzantine years. Today, his poetry occupies a prominent place in both Greek and world literature.You may read the complete C. P. Cavafy bio here https://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/and discover the digital collection of the Cavafy Archive here https://cavafy.onassis.org/.For more information about C. P. Cavafy:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Daniel Mendelsohn about Cavafy, at 11:50: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-096-daniel-mendelsohnC. P. Cavafy: Complete Poems: https://www.danielmendelsohn.com/book/c-p-cavafy-complete-poems“Cavafy Archive”: https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/cavafy-archive/“Man With a Past: Cavafy Revisited”: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/23/man-with-a-past“The City”: https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/cavafy-archive/the-canon/the-city“Handwritten notes on ‘The City'”: https://cavafy.onassis.org/object/ad3m-a5bh-hs47/

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!C.P. Cavafy is widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. He was born on April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, where his Greek parents had settled in the mid-1850s, and died on the same day in 1933. During his lifetime Cavafy was an obscure poet, living in relative seclusion and publishing little of his work. A short collection of his poetry was privately printed in the early 1900s and reprinted with new verse a few years later, but that was the extent of his published poetry. Instead, Cavafy chose to circulate his verse among friends.Cavafy is the leading poet of the periphery, writing in Greek far from Greek lands. The body of his poetry includes the 154 poems of the “canon”; 37 “repudiated poems,” most of which are juvenilia written in romantic katharevousa; 75 “hidden” poems that were found finished in his papers; and 30 “unfinished” poems. His poems often feature historical figures or creations of the poet's imagination, with frequent references to elements of Homeric, Hellenistic, and Byzantine years. Today, his poetry occupies a prominent place in both Greek and world literature.You may read the complete C. P. Cavafy bio here https://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/and discover the digital collection of the Cavafy Archive here https://cavafy.onassis.org/.From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/c-p-cavafy and https://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/.For more information about C. P. Cavafy:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Daniel Mendelsohn about Cavafy, at 11:50: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-096-daniel-mendelsohnThe Collected Poems: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-collected-poems-9780199555956?cc=ca&lang=en&“Cavafy Archive”: https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/cavafy-archive/“Far Off”: https://cavafy.onassis.org/object/4kq8-sefw-mf5d/

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!C.P. Cavafy is widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. He was born on April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, where his Greek parents had settled in the mid-1850s, and died on the same day in 1933. During his lifetime Cavafy was an obscure poet, living in relative seclusion and publishing little of his work. A short collection of his poetry was privately printed in the early 1900s and reprinted with new verse a few years later, but that was the extent of his published poetry. Instead, Cavafy chose to circulate his verse among friends.Cavafy is the leading poet of the periphery, writing in Greek far from Greek lands. The body of his poetry includes the 154 poems of the “canon”; 37 “repudiated poems,” most of which are juvenilia written in romantic katharevousa; 75 “hidden” poems that were found finished in his papers; and 30 “unfinished” poems. His poems often feature historical figures or creations of the poet's imagination, with frequent references to elements of Homeric, Hellenistic, and Byzantine years. Today, his poetry occupies a prominent place in both Greek and world literature.You may read the complete C. P. Cavafy bio here https://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/and discover the digital collection of the Cavafy Archive here https://cavafy.onassis.org/.From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/c-p-cavafy and https://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/.For more information about C. P. Cavafy:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Daniel Mendelsohn about Cavafy, at 11:50: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-096-daniel-mendelsohnThe Collected Poems: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-collected-poems-9780199555956?cc=ca&lang=en&“Cavafy Archive”: https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/cavafy-archive/“Far Off”: https://cavafy.onassis.org/object/4kq8-sefw-mf5d/

Beyoncé's Renaissance: we discuss Beyoncé's house and disco inspired new album – her first solo material in six years - and her huge significance as an artist and cultural icon. Nick is joined by Jacqueline Springer – curator, and music journalist and lecturer, and by Dr Kirsty Fairclough who specialises in popular culture and music. The Arctic is Don Paterson's new collection of poems. The title refers not to the polar region but the third worst bar in Dundee, the resort of survivors of various apocalypses. Other poets are a presence, too, in Paterson's poems ‘after' Gabriela Mistral, Montale and Cavafy. Nick Ahad interviews Don Paterson about this poetic cornucopia. David Byrne is the artistic director and chief executive of London's New Diorama, the Stage newspaper's Fringe Theatre of the Year. He joins Nick to explain his decision to present no public programme for the rest of the year. Free-for-All is a programme that does what it says on the tin – all artworks on the walls of the Touchstones Gallery have been made by people from Rochdale. Artist Harry Meadley joins Nick to explain the concept. And we remember American actor Nichelle Nichols, best known for her role in Star Trek as Lieutenant Uhura, who has died aged 89. Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu Image: Beyoncé

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!C.P. Cavafy is widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. He was born on April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, where his Greek parents had settled in the mid-1850s, and died on the same day in 1933. During his lifetime Cavafy was an obscure poet, living in relative seclusion and publishing little of his work. A short collection of his poetry was privately printed in the early 1900s and reprinted with new verse a few years later, but that was the extent of his published poetry. Instead, Cavafy chose to circulate his verse among friends.Cavafy is the leading poet of the periphery, writing in Greek far from Greek lands. The body of his poetry includes the 154 poems of the “canon”; 37 “repudiated poems,” most of which are juvenilia written in romantic katharevousa; 75 “hidden” poems that were found finished in his papers; and 30 “unfinished” poems. His poems often feature historical figures or creations of the poet's imagination, with frequent references to elements of Homeric, Hellenistic, and Byzantine years. Today, his poetry occupies a prominent place in both Greek and world literature.You may read the complete C. P. Cavafy bio here https://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/and discover the digital collection of the Cavafy Archive here https://cavafy.onassis.org/.From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/c-p-cavafy and https://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/.For more information about C. P. Cavafy:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Daniel Mendelsohn about Cavafy, at 11:50: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-096-daniel-mendelsohn“Che Fece … Il Gran Rifiuto”: https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/cavafy-archive/the-canon/che-fece-il-gran-rifiuto“Cavafy Archive”: https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/cavafy-archive/The Collected Poems, translation by Evangelos Sachperoglou: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-collected-poems-9780199555956?cc=us&lang=en&

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) lived what was in many ways an astonishingly modern, transcultural and translingual life. He was born in Lisbon and grew up in Anglophone Durban, acquiring a life-long love for English poetry and language. Returning to Lisbon, from where he would never again leave, he set himself the goal to travel throughout an infinitude of inner landscapes, to be an explorer of inner worlds. He published very little, but left behind a famous trunk containing a treasure-trove of scraps, on which were written some of the greatest literary works of the 20th century, mainly in Portuguese but also substantially in English and French. He is now acknowledged as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and he has emerged over the last decade as a forgotten voice in 20th century modernism, taking his rightful place alongside C. P. Cavafy, Franz Kafka, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Jorge Luis Borges. Pessoa was also a serious student of philosophy and himself a very creative philosopher, yet his genius as a philosopher has hardly been recognized. In this episode, Jonardon Ganeri sets out to put that right.Jonardon Ganeri holds the Bimal Matilal Distinguished Professorship in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His work draws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and theory of knowledge. He's a great advocate for an expanded role for cross-cultural methodologies and his research subjects include consciousness, self, attention, the idea of philosophy as a practice and its relationship to literature. His books include "Attention Not Self"; "Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide" and most recently "Fugitive Selves: Fernando Pessoa and His Philosophy". See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

C.P. Cavafy is widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. He was born on April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, where his Greek parents had settled in the mid-1850s, and died on the same day in 1933. During his lifetime Cavafy was an obscure poet, living in relative seclusion and publishing little of his work. A short collection of his poetry was privately printed in the early 1900s and reprinted with new verse a few years later, but that was the extent of his published poetry. Instead, Cavafy chose to circulate his verse among friends.Cavafy is the leading poet of the periphery, writing in Greek far from Greek lands. The body of his poetry includes the 154 poems of the “canon”; 37 “repudiated poems,” most of which are juvenilia written in romantic katharevousa; 75 “hidden” poems that were found finished in his papers; and 30 “unfinished” poems. His poems often feature historical figures or creations of the poet's imagination, with frequent references to elements of Homeric, Hellenistic, and Byzantine years. Today, his poetry occupies a prominent place in both Greek and world literature.You may read the complete C. P. Cavafy bio here https://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/and discover the digital collection of the Cavafy Archive here https://cavafy.onassis.org/.From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/c-p-cavafy and https://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/.For more information about C. P. Cavafy:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Daniel Mendelsohn about Cavafy, at 11:50: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-096-daniel-mendelsohnThe Collected Poems, translation by Evangelos Sachperoglou: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-collected-poems-9780199555956?cc=us&lang=en&“Cavafy Archive”: https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/cavafy-archive/“Man with a Past: Cavafy Revisited”: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/23/man-with-a-past

Uno de los sonidos más representativos de los 80 es sin duda la música de Vangelis. Autor de bandas sonoras conocidas como "Blade Runner" (1982), que cuenta con monográfico, "Carros de fuego" (1981) o "1492, la conquista del paraíso" (1992) y otras menos conocidas como "Desaparecido" (1982) o "Lunas de hiel" (1992). Pero al griego, no se le puede considerar un compositor de cine tal cual, ya que durante sus casi medio siglo de carrera realizó decenas de discos conceptuales así como que le puso música a documetales, serie de televisión, espectáculos e incluso a los Juegos Olímpicos. Vangelis falleció el pasado 17 de mayo y este programa le quiere rendir homenaje. Espero que disfrutes de la proyección... Listado de temas – Vangelis 1. Blade Runner Blues (1982) 2. Vortex, the face of Medusa 3. Sex Power (1970) 4. Fais Que Ton Reve Soit plus Long Que La Nuit (1971) 5. Salut Jerusalem (1972) --- 43:54 6. Amore (1973) 7. Earth (1973) 8. L'Apocalypse des Animaux (1973) 9. Heaven and Hell (1975) 10. Crime & Passion (1976) --- 01:37:51 11. La fete sauvage (1977) 12. Spiral (1977) 13. Vangelis & Irene Papas – Odes (1979) 14. China 15. Opera sauvage --- 02:39:51 16. Carros de fuego (1981) 17. The music of Cosmos (1981) 18. Blade Runner (1982) 19. Blade Runner (featuring The New American Orchestra 1982) 20. Desaparecido (1982) --- 03:55:41 21. Picasso 22. Antarctica 23. Soil Festivities 24. Motín a bordo (1984) 25. Ignacio (1985) --- 04:53:51 26. Mask (1985) 27. Vangelis & Irene Papas – Rapsodies (1986) 28. De Nuremberg a Nuremberg (1988) 29. Direct (1988) 30. Francesco (1989) --- 05:47:18 31. The city (1990) 32. Cosmos (1991) 33. Cousteau (1992) 34. La peste (1992) 35. Lunas de hiel (1992) --- 06:41:30 36. 1492 la conquista del paraiso (1992) 37. Cavafy (1996) 38. Oceanic (1996) 39. El Greco (1998) 40. Mythodea (2001) 41. Athenas 2004 - Olympic Games (Olympia) --- 08:13:53 42. Alejandro Magno (2004) 43. Trashed (2012) 44. Rosetta (2016) 45. Nocturne - Blade Runner Suite (2019) 46. Nocturne (2019) 47. Juno to Jupiter (2021) 48. Aphrodite´s child- The Four Horsemen 49. Bonus track

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Gregory Jusdanis, Humanities Distinguished Professor of Classics, researches modern Greek literature and culture, including the poet C. P. Cavafy. His recent work has been a biography of Cavafy, co-written with Peter Jeffries, exploring, among other areas, how Cavafy rejected his early poetry and found new expressions in his later years. For more of his discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Frustrated from 3 months of lockdown, Nabil De Castro set out on a spontaneous journey that would take him across four continents - all during a time when travelling the world seemed impossible to most people. In this episode he recounts adventures from his travels, key experiences along the way and the kind of unique insights that can only be gained through traversing such a journey.  To follow Nabil's journey on Instagram click here: @nabil.decastro Below is the full Ithaka Poem by C.P. Cavafy (translated by Edmund Keeley) that is quoted in the episode:   ITHAKA As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don't be afraid of them: you'll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, wild Poseidon—you won't encounter them unless you bring them along inside your soul, unless your soul sets them up in front of you.   Hope your road is a long one. May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, what joy, you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time; may you stop at Phoenician trading stations to buy fine things, mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony, sensual perfume of every kind— as many sensual perfumes as you can; and may you visit many Egyptian cities to learn and go on learning from their scholars.   Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you're destined for. But don't hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you're old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you've gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.   Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you wouldn't have set out. She has nothing left to give you now.   And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.     Music by Ian Cattanach  

As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don't be afraid of them: you'll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, wild Poseidon—you won't encounter them unless you bring them along inside your soul, unless your soul sets them up in front of you. Hope your road is a long one. May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, what joy, you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time; may you stop at Phoenician trading stations to buy fine things, mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony, sensual perfume of every kind— as many sensual perfumes as you can; and may you visit many Egyptian cities to learn and go on learning from their scholars. Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you're destined for. But don't hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you're old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you've gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you wouldn't have set out. She has nothing left to give you now. And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean. C. P. Cavafy, "The City" from C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Translation Copyright © 1975, 1992 by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Reproduced with permission of Princeton University Press. Source: C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems (Princeton University Press, 1975)

C.P. Cavafy is widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. He was born on April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, where his Greek parents had settled in the mid-1850s, and died on the same day in 1933. During his lifetime Cavafy was an obscure poet, living in relative seclusion and publishing little of his work. A short collection of his poetry was privately printed in the early 1900s and reprinted with new verse a few years later, but that was the extent of his published poetry. Instead, Cavafy chose to circulate his verse among friends.Cavafy is the leading poet of the periphery, writing in Greek far from Greek lands. The body of his poetry includes the 154 poems of the “canon”; 37 “repudiated poems,” most of which are juvenilia written in romantic katharevousa; 75 “hidden” poems that were found finished in his papers; and 30 “unfinished” poems. His poems often feature historical figures or creations of the poet's imagination, with frequent references to elements of Homeric, Hellenistic, and Byzantine years. Today, his poetry occupies a prominent place in both Greek and world literature.You may read the complete C. P. Cavafy bio here https://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/ and discover the digital collection of the Cavafy Archive here https://cavafy.onassis.org/.From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/c-p-cavafy and https://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/.For more information about C. P. Cavafy:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Daniel Mendelsohn about Cavafy, at 11:50: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-096-daniel-mendelsohn“The Cavafy Dossier”: https://read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/issue/48/2“C.P. Cavafy: Complete Poems”: https://www.danielmendelsohn.com/book/c-p-cavafy-complete-poems“Ithaka”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ec

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!C.P. Cavafy is widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. He was born on April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, where his Greek parents had settled in the mid-1850s, and died on the same day in 1933. During his lifetime Cavafy was an obscure poet, living in relative seclusion and publishing little of his work. A short collection of his poetry was privately printed in the early 1900s and reprinted with new verse a few years later, but that was the extent of his published poetry. Instead, Cavafy chose to circulate his verse among friends.Cavafy is the leading poet of the periphery, writing in Greek far from Greek lands. The body of his poetry includes the 154 poems of the “canon”; 37 “repudiated poems,” most of which are juvenilia written in romantic katharevousa; 75 “hidden” poems that were found finished in his papers; and 30 “unfinished” poems. His poems often feature historical figures or creations of the poet's imagination, with frequent references to elements of Homeric, Hellenistic, and Byzantine years. Today, his poetry occupies a prominent place in both Greek and world literature.You may read the complete C. P. Cavafy bio herehttps://cavafy.onassis.org/creator/cavafy-c-p/and discover the digital collection of the Cavafy Archive here https://cavafy.onassis.org/.For more information about C. P. Cavafy:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes: Daniel Mendelsohn about Cavafy, at 11:50“The Cavafy Dossier”“C.P. Cavafy: Complete Poems”“Ithaka”: Ithaka – Onassis Foundation  

"Art is the repository of the things we never did and wish we had done. It is the song of our regrets." The great writer of fiction and non-fiction André Aciman is here. In the discussion, he and Daniel explore the interplay of time and place. Using Aciman's recent book of essays, Homo Irrealis, as the jumping off point, many questions such as "Where and what is home?" "Who makes up a place?" "What is memory?" come up and are discussed in depth. Irrealis is what Aciman describes as "a category of verbal moods that indicate that certain events have not happened, may never happen, or should or must or are indeed desired to happen, but for which there is no indication that they will ever happen. Irrealis moods are also known as counterfactual moods and include the conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, and the imperative—all best expressed in this book as the might-be and the might-have-been." Also in the conversation is a deep look at time in music, the melancholy of Mozart, the wanderings of Freud and Cavafy, and a special reading of Proust by Aciman at the end, which provides a moving context and final note. Support Talking Beats with Daniel Lelchuk on Patreon. You will contribute to continued presentation of substantive interviews with the world's most compelling people. We believe that providing a platform for individual expression, free thought, and a diverse array of views is more important now than ever. André Aciman received his Ph. D. and A.M. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College. Before coming to The Graduate Center at CUNY, he taught at Princeton University and Bard College. Although his specialty is in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English, French and Italian literature (he wrote his dissertation on Madame de LaFayette's La Princesse de Clèves), he is especially interested in the theory of the psychological novel (roman d'analyse) across boundaries and eras. In addition to teaching the history of literary theory, he teaches the work of Marcel Proust and the literature of memory and exile. André Aciman is the former executive officer of the Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature. He is also the director of The Writers' Institute at The Graduate Center, as well as of The Center for the Humanities, and of the Critical Theory Certificate Program. He is the author of the memoir Out of Egypt, and of two collections of essays, False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory and Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere. He has co–authored and edited The Proust Project and Letters of Transit. He is also the author of four novels, Call Me by Your Name, Eight White Nights, Harvard Square, and of the forthcoming Enigma Variations. His books have appeared in many languages. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from The New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays.

Today I bring you the poem ‘The City' by the Greek Poet Constantine P. Cavafy. Reach me https://linktr.ee/vinodnarayan --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/penpositive/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/penpositive/support

In this episode we discuss the role of violence in the struggle against capitalism. What constitutes a violent action? What form(s) of violence would productively incapacitate capitalism's own exercises of violence? Main episode beings at 11:27.  If you want to contact us, hit us up at therilkeanzoo[at]gmail.com. Also, find us on Patreon at patreon.com/therilkeanzoo. Text: C.P. Cavafy, "The City," The Complete Poems of Cavafy, trans. Rae Dalven (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1976), 27.

Episode 107: Jeffry “J.J.” Clausen Jr. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjclausen/) has worked in commercial real estate, venture capital and investment banking and is focused on synthesizing his disparate experience, personal life journey and acquired knowledge to apply the venturesome spirit of the private sector into the transitioning state of the public sector. Choosing academia at a later stage in life to complete his personal cycles of self-validation, JJ is currently a first-generation student conducting research with the economics departments at University of South Florida and New College on commercial real estate valuation methods, repo rates, and financial instrument architecture. To quote the C.P. Cavafy's poem, JJ is on his own “road to Ithaca” (quite literally to Cornell) where it is full of triumph, tragedy, adventure, and discovery. Ithaka, by C. P. Cavafy https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ec "The real estate market index.” https://www.kysq.org/pubs/REMI_Final.pdf Silicon Valley etiquette https://medium.com/@romainserman/silicon-valley-etiquette-6934cf6f8f73

Konstantínos Kaváfis, no alfabeto grego: Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης, foi um poeta grego-otomano, geralmente considerado o maior nome da poesia em idioma grego moderno. Por vezes, seu nome aparece creditado como Constantine P. Cavafy. Nasceu em 1863 e faleceu em 1933. >> Apoie o projeto e nos ajude a espalhar mais poesia https://apoia.se/tomaaiumpoema Poema: O Deus Abandona Antônio Poeta: Konstantinos Kaváfis Tradução: Haroldo de Campos Voz: Jéssica Iancoski | @euiancoski Use #tomaaiumpoema Siga @tomaaiumpoema "Quando, pela meia-noite, de improviso ouvires passar, invisível, um tíasos com música soberba e cânticos, a sorte que afinal te abandona, tuas obras falidas, teus planos de vida – tudo ilusório – com nênias vãs não lastimes. Como um bravo que, há muito, já se preparava, saúda essa Alexandria que te está fugindo. Não, não te deixes burlar, dizendo: “foi sonho”, ou: “meus ouvidos me enganaram”; desdenha essa esperança vã. Como um bravo que, há muito, já se preparava, como convém a quem é digno desta pólis, aproxima-te – não hesites – da janela e escuta comovido, porém sem pranto ou prece pusilânime, como quem frui de um último prazer, os sons, os soberbos acordes do místico tíasos: e saúda Alexandria, enquanto a estás perdendo." Descubra mais em www.jessicaiancoski.com Está servido? Fique! Que tal mais um poeminha? ___ >> Quer ter um poema seu aqui? É só preencher o formulário! Após o preenchimento, nossa equipe entrará em contato para informar a data agendada. https://forms.gle/nAEHJgd9u8B9zS3u7 CONTRIBUA! =P >> Formulário para Indicação de Autores, contribuição com declames, sugestões (...)! https://forms.gle/itY59kREnXhZpqjq7

Konstantínos Kaváfis, no alfabeto grego: Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης, foi um poeta grego-otomano, geralmente considerado o maior nome da poesia em idioma grego moderno. Por vezes, seu nome aparece creditado como Constantine P. Cavafy. Nasceu em 1863 e faleceu em 1933. >> Apoie o projeto e nos ajude a espalhar mais poesia https://apoia.se/tomaaiumpoema Poema: Mar Matutino Poeta: Konstantinos Kaváfis Tradução: Haroldo de Campos Voz: Jéssica Iancoski | @euiancoski Use #tomaaiumpoema Siga @tomaaiumpoema "Parar aqui. Mirar um pouco a natureza. Lampeja o azul-turquesa. Praias amarelas. Tudo, à luz, se embeleza, à grande luz que alumbra. Parar aqui. Mirá-la assim, quase miragem (se me antepôs deveras, só por breve instante). E estando aqui, não relembrar só meus fantasmas: anamnese, ilusões – esses ícones do êxtase." Descubra mais em www.jessicaiancoski.com Está servido? Fique! Que tal mais um poeminha? ___ >> Quer ter um poema seu aqui? É só preencher o formulário! Após o preenchimento, nossa equipe entrará em contato para informar a data agendada. https://forms.gle/nAEHJgd9u8B9zS3u7 CONTRIBUA! =P >> Formulário para Indicação de Autores, contribuição com declames, sugestões (...)! https://forms.gle/itY59kREnXhZpqjq7

Three Freeman’s contributors from three different genres, born on three different continents, talk about the way love makes a story, a poem, and the shape of a memoir. Mieko Kawakami is the award winning author of Breasts & Eggs, her North American debut, and is declared by Haruki Murakami as his favorite new Japanese novelist; Daniel Mendelsohn is the National Book Critics Circle Award winning author of The Lost, translator of poems of Cavafy, and his latest genre bending tale, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate, and Valzynha Mort is a poet and translator and author of four books. Born in Belarus, she now lives in Ithaca, New York. Her latest collection is Music for the Dead and Resurrected. Join Festival favourite John Freeman as he leads a discussion on a topic we could all use a little more of in our lives: love.

At what might be the half-way point and more opinionated than usual, Charles Adrian talks about three books he was given by friends in Athens.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   You can find out more about the Jacques Lecoq school in Paris on their homepage here: http://www.ecole-jacqueslecoq.com/en   There is a nice introduction to Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker on the British Library website here: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-our-countrys-good   Correction: the last quadrant of Charles Adrian’s summary of Pascal’s Wager (at 18:22) should read: “If I don’t believe in God and God doesn’t exist…”   The discussion of Pascal’s Wager in this episode is, in any case, a little superficial. You can find a better summary on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager and a more extended analysis in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/   Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet is discussed in Page One 55.   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 79 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/79-alison-windsor/), Page One 80 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/80-erifili-stefanidou/) and Page One 81 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/81-vicky-sachpazi/).   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 27th July, 2020     Book listing:   The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally (Page One 79) Oscar Et La Dame Rose by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (Page One 80) Selected Poems by C. P. Cavafy (trans. David Connolly) (Page One 81)

As you set out for Ithaka, hope your road is a long one… - Когато тръгнеш нявга за Итака, моли се пътят ти да е далечен…

The incomparable Mona Eltahawy - author, feminist, muslim, anarchist - returns to talk masks/veiling, public/private bodies and of course we talk how to destroy patriarchy! Plus: we read June Jordan and Cavafy poems!  

A lecture by Mary Jacobus. To launch her book Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press, 2016), Mary Jacobus explores the use of quotations in one of his major paintings. The American painter Cy Twombly (1928–2011), who lived in Rome from the 1950s onward, often spoke of himself as a ‘Mediterranean' painter. His vast tripartite canvas, Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the shores of Asia Minor, spans two decades and was finally completed to coincide with his 1994 MoMA retrospective. Previously known as Unfinished Painting, it exemplifies Twombly's use of quotation. Say Goodbye includes a palimpsest of passages drawn from Rilke, Cavafy, and Seferis, among others. At a distance, it appears empty. Close-up, it provides a literary archeology. How much do we need to know about Twombly's quotations and how do they affect the viewer's experience of his work?

Rotterdam Chips. Pedacitos de nuestra biblioteca que compartimos contigo. "Termópilas", de C.P. Cavafy. En la voz de Erasmo W. Neumann. Música de Tyler Bates. https://www.twitter.com/rotterdam_press/

Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) This is the second of Cavafy's poems on the Podcast. Like the first it plays off a classical story. In this case it takes an incident from Plutarch's life of Anthony, and shifts from the particular historical event, when Anthony is supposed to have heard his patron God, DIonysus leaving the city, to a more universal poem about loss and defeat. How should you behave when faced with failure? The poem offers advice to an unnamed protagonist. Leonard Cohen used this poem as a starting point for his song Alexandra Leaving, turning Alexandria the city into a human Alexandra and turning the general defeat into a romantic one. This is taken from ‘C. P. Cavafy Collected Poems, revised edition', trans Keeley and Sherrard, edited by George Savidis (Princeton University Press)

Caryl Phillips on his selection: It’s over thirty years since I first came upon the work of C.P. Cavafy. A friend of mine, a Polish poet, had recommended Cavafy’s Collected Poems translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. I worried a little that, not being a poet, there would not be any real point of connection. However, from the first page I recognized something in Cavafy’s work that struck a chord with me. Cavafy lived between two worlds—the Egyptian and the Greek—and had a complex relationship to the word “home.” He underpinned his work with historical detail and had little interest in the world of publishing. His was an essentially reflective, and reclusive, muse—looking back at time past and wondering about what lay ahead. This seems to be exactly what many of us are now doing. Taking this time to think about how to stitch together our past and present so that when we return to “normal” we might have a more balanced, and purposeful, sense of what we should do with the rest of our lives. Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy, trans. Keeley and Sherrard at Bookshop.org Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0

Tha past and the future

These are two of the versions out there of this poem regarding living certain way.

Portrait d'une figure majeure de la littérature grecque du XXème siècle, par Arnaud Roy.

Escrito y narrado por Álvaro Mata

Trigger Warning: This show contains references to sexual assault and extreme violence which comes directly out of Genesis chapter 34. (Who said the Bible is "family-friendly?") Liam Hooper takes on a difficult text: Genesis 34 which tells the story of Dinah, the daughter of Leah and of Jacob. One day Dinah, a young woman of marrying age, leaves the family compound on the edge of a Hivite settlement to visit the women of the region. According to the writer of the account: 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the region, saw her, he seized her and lay with her by force. 3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the girl, and spoke tenderly to her. 4 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl to be my wife.” This sets off a string of bloody events, intrigue, and depending how you look at it, a heroic or horrific response.  9 Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. 10 You shall live with us; and the land shall be open to you; live and trade in it, and get property in it.” 11 Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor with you, and whatever you say to me I will give. 12 Put the marriage present and gift as high as you like, and I will give whatever you ask me; only give me the girl to be my wife.” 13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah. 14 They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us. 15 Only on this condition will we consent to you: that you will become as we are and every male among you be circumcised...25 On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came against the city unawares, and killed all the males. 26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away. 27 And the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled. For Liam this passage raises troubling questions. The brothers and the teller of the tale emphatically state Shechem rapes Dinah, but is it possible Dinah gives her consent to Shechem? Are the brothers offended because their sister is "defiled," or because she chose her own lover and husband without their consent? How does class, ethnicity, and tribe play in this display of extreme violence by the aggrieved brothers against every male in the city? What might Dinah have to say about all of this since none of her words or reactions are ever mentioned in the text? And how does this ancient text mirror the race-based terrorism gangs of white men poured out on African-Americans when they accused a Black man of being sexually or romantically inappropriate with a white woman?  Liam admits he has more questions than answers. Peterson Toscano joins the discussion, adds even more questions, and reveals the confusing feelings he had as a child when he was sexually assaulted. The honest discourse and deep questions invites listeners to contribute their own thoughts, feelings, and insights.  To share your questions, comments, requests for passages to be discussed, or suggestions for guests who can talk about texts, email Liam and Peterson: ministriesbeyondwelcome@gmail.com Peterson follows up with "Another Text," The Afternoon Son, a poem by gay poet Constantine or C.P. Cavafy. It was translated by Edmund Keeley and is available to read at The Poetry Foundation.  In each episode of Bible Bash Podcast, Liam, a trans queerish man, and co-host, cis gay Bible scholar, Peterson Toscano, take turns presenting the text. They then discuss. In addition, each episode they present another text, a non-Biblical text of note--religious or secular--that may or may not correspond to the Bible text.  Bible Bash Podcast is a project of Ministries Beyond Welcome.  Our theme song is Playbill by The Jellyrox. It is available on iTunes, Spotify, or through Rock Candy Recordings To share your questions, comments, requests for passages to be discussed, or suggestions for guests who can talk about texts, email Liam and Peterson: ministriesbeyondwelcome@gmail.com Bible Bash Podcast is part of the Rock Candy Network Bible Bash logo was designed by Diana Coe at Crone Communications Check out other Rock Candy podcasts Stephen Long's Sacred Tension Peterson Toscano's Bubble&Squeak EleventyLife hosted by Matt Langston of the Band EleventySeven

Thank you Constantine for dedicating this poem to me before I took off into the unknown. Much love.  Road to Ithaki As you set out for Ithaki hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them unless you bring them along inside your soul, unless your soul sets them up in front of you. Hope your road is a long one. May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, what joy, you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time; may you stop at Phoenician trading stations to buy fine things, mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony, sensual perfume of every kind— as many sensual perfumes as you can; and may you visit many Egyptian cities to learn and go on learning from their scholars. Keep Ithaki always in your mind. Arriving there is what you’re destined for. But don’t hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you’re old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way, not expecting Ithaki to make you rich. Ithaki gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you wouldn't have set out. She has nothing left to give you now. And if you find her poor, Ithaki won’t have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakis mean. ------- I am on my journey to Ithaki, a destination I translate metaphorically as the journey back to my soul. 

I talked about time and eternity and related ideas in an earlier program and last week I talked about the figure of the wheel as it might be revealed and used in poetry. I follow up on both of those programs today and read poems about watches and clocks and such circular devices to tell time; and, perhaps most importantly, the fact of what clocks and watches do: they signify the passage of time. I read poems by the French poet Charles Baudelaire, by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy, Howard Nemerov, and a found poem discovered by Steven Schroeder. I end my program with two of my own poems in which clocks play essential thematic roles.

The June installment of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's (SNF) DIALOGUES series found the event once again travelling outside of Athens, heading to the western part of Mount Parnon and to the village of Vamvakou in Laconia, along with a large group of friends. As part of a full day of activities and events on Saturday, July 13, 2019—open and free for all—the DIALOGUES invited the audience to participate in an open discussion on the theme of “Back to our Roots.” The topic was inspired by the Vamvakou Revival project, championed by five young people seeking to revitalize the village of Vamvakou with encouragement and financial support from SNF. The all-day event included sports, educational, and artistic activities for the entire family: nature hiking, walks on the village's paths, cycling, activities for kids, a movie screening at the village school, and the first Vamvakou Mountain Run, which offered both 7 km and 28 km routes. The SNF DIALOGUES event followed, after visitors enjoyed a traditional lunch in the village square. In the DIALOGUES discussion that took place on Saturday afternoon, the speakers and audience exchanged ideas on supporting the vitality of remote and declining regions through new sustainability models, while considering the roles of education, health, and technology in this effort. SNF Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos spoke warmly about the efforts of the five members of the Vamvakou Revival Team, who joined the panel. He also highlighted that “there isn't any time pressure or pressure of numbers” in the project and that the effort to revive Vamvakou, a “life experiment,” has already succeeded in its goal by embarking on the sort of journey Cavafy describes in his poem Ithaca. “We are happy to have contributed, at least to trying something different, something more humane in a natural setting, something that creates its own trips for many people,” he said. The five cofounders of the Vamvakou Revival team, Haris Vasilakos, Anargyros Verdilos, Eleni Mami, Tasos Markos, and Panagiotis Soulimiotis, spoke about the motivations behind their endeavor to revitalize Vamvakou, the steps that they have taken so far, and what's to come. Further, Dr. Panagiotis Koulouvaris, president of the nonprofit Regeneration & Progress, talked about the importance of supporting healthcare infrastructure in nonurban Greece, informed by the experience of the Mobile Medical Units that have traveled across the country over the last five years with support from SNF. Artistic Director of the Greek National Opera George Koumendakis talked about his own experience working toward the revival of the village of Isternia on Tinos, as well as the contribution culture makes to such efforts. Lastly, Konstantinos Chambidis, Chief Digital Officer to the City of Athens, stressed the importance of using technology effectively to the success of revival projects, while simultaneously respecting and preserving each region's traditions and history.

How does an artist make The Leap into greatness? In Ersi Sotiropoulos' wondrous new novel, What's Left of the Night (New Vessel Press, tr. Karen Emmerich), we explore three days in the mid-life of the poet CP Cavafy and how they may have helped him become the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. Ersi & I talk about how an off-the-cuff discovery of Cavafy's 1897 trip to Paris led her to this novel over three decades, how she almost drowned in research before a poet browbeat her into writing the proemium of her novel, and how the book rebelled against itself until she had a dream of Cavafy that quelled the unrest. We also get into the universality of desire, her non-challenge of writing from the perspective of a gay man, the process of translation and Ersi's tendency to over-edit translators when it's a language she knows. Plus, she tells us why she considers me a pantophile (one who likes everything), and why she prefers hotels over being home in Greece, the Iliad over the Odyssey, and the daemon over the muses when it comes to the font of creativity. BONUS: You get to hear about the novel I never got around to writing, featuring Henry Miller and George Orwell! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

I think I first came across Jack Woody’s name after buying a Duane Michals called Album years ago. I remember thinking that it was so elegant, so beautifully printed and layed out, that I was curious who was behind it. I remember mentioning that book the first time I met Duane, and he told me that there was this hotel in San Francisco who bought the book and cut out and framed the prints they were so gorgeous.That gravure process that Jack Woody tracked down and began to use became one of the signatures of his imprints, Twelvetree and Twin Palms. The name of his first press comes from his grandmother, Helen Twelvetrees, a Hollywood movie star in the 1930’s.After graduating high school, he wanted to go see his grandmother’s star on Hollywood boulevard, so he hitchhiked to LA. He ended up getting a job at a used bookstore called Pickwick. After a year there, he moved to Antiquarian Books, which was where he met David Hockney and his galerist Nicholas Wilder. It was that meeting that eventually led him to meeting Duane Michals, whose portfolio, Homage to Cavafy, he showed while working at the Nicolas Wilder gallery.He’s published over 150 art books by the likes of Christopher Isherwood, Herbert List, George Platt Lynes, Diane Keaton, Allen Ginsberg, Lise Sarfati, Malerie Marder, Mark Morrisroe, Eggleston, Clemente, Michals, Mapplethorpe, Davidson...the list just goes on and on.When he started publishing art and more specifically photo books in the 198O’s, no zone else was doing it, other than a couple other presses. He essentially invented a form that his imprint would become known for.I was so excited to go and meet him. The Rolodex of people that he’s known and worked with is like an encyclopedia of both gay and photo history. And yet, when I went over to the house that he designed and built in the hills of Santa Fe, New Mexico, I met the most humble and charming man - soft spoken, unpretentious, but also willing to talk about his life and work if you expressed interest. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Civilizations's greatest monster–the terrible specter that haunts comfortable and prosperous societies–has always been the barbarian. That's the creature that arrives and destroys all that comfort and prosperity, that leaves ruins behind; that forces people to question whether all that comfort and prosperity was worth it, and whether they should have been barbarians themselves. Today I discuss the concept of the barbarian in Greek and Roman societies with Erik Jensen, author of (helpfully enough) Barbarians in the Greek and Roman World. To define barbarians as "those not like us" is to also define "what we are." So Erik and I spend a lot of time talking about what it meant to be Greek, and what it meant to be Roman. We also discuss how the impoverished and backward Greeks could view the dazzlingly rich and talented Persians as barbarians; what the Romans ever did for us; why barbarians are just so damn attractive; and why the worst barbarians are always seen as those born within civilization. For Further Investigation Political ambitions create a barbarian: Ariel Helfer, Socrates and Alcibiades, Plato's Drama of Political Ambition The Original Grumpy (and shrewd) Old Man: Tacitus, Annals and Histories Friends, Romans or Countryman? What came afterward: Richard Fletcher on The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity Poetic meditation on our need for the barbarian: C.P. Cavafy, "Waiting for the Barbarians" Is "Non-state actor" just another term for barbarian?

Rereading the great modern Greek poet C.P. Cavafy.

  How ebbing and flowing with giving and receiving is tied to well-being How to begin your journey of finding your passion and purpose How to listen to yourself as way toward healing   Links Mentioned : Ithaka, poem by C.P. Cavafy https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ec Fearless Self Love Podcast on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/groundedhere/ Show Highlights: 01:59 Easeful Living Practice, Ithaka poem 05:44 Interview with Karinna of Inward to Ithaka begins, meaning and purpose of her work, how it began 12:40 Karinna’s journey in the wellness world, balancing learning and teaching, balancing self-care and service 16:28 discussion of how the body changes when we begin to up-level self-care, including her battle with endometriosis 21:58 The purpose (and benefits) of giving and serving 24:18 The impact of passion and the deception that we should know it from day one 31:19 What going inward means to Karinna 34:19 Courageous Self-Care Tip” Sit with yourself for 5 minutes, ask yourself “What have you been trying to say that I haven’t been listening to?”   Favorite Quotes   “Even if you’re going through something, you can still help someone else.”  -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka   “Don’t underestimate your ability to help the people around you when you when you’re in a withdraw help myself phase.” -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka   “To me, boredom, discussion lack of passion come from when we don’t have a sense of purpose.”-- Andrea Catherine   “When i’ve experienced giving as a way of receiving, it’s really connected to me feeling valued and valuable.” -- Andrea Catherine   “A lot of people are wandering around wondering what their purpose is and what their passion is...they know that their purpose is a big part of them, but they don’t know what their purpose is.” -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka   “As humans, what creates connection for all of us, is that we inherently benefit form connecting, from giving.” -- Andrea Catherine   “Feel the fear and do it anyway.” -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka   “Remember [you’re] this new upgraded model that is not in a rush. You’ve got patience now...so embrace it. Instead of being stressed out, just relax.“  -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka   “To know where [others] end and I begin is just as important as how can we collaborate.” -- Andrea Catherine  

'Days of 1908' by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, read by Laura Palazón. 'Days of 1908' was first published in 1932. This translation appears in 'C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems.' published by Princeton University Press in 1992. A transcript can be found at http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=92&cat=1

"Daniel Mendelsohn is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator. Born in New York City in 1960, he received degrees in Classics from the University of Virginia and Princeton. After completing his PhD, he moved to New York City, where he began freelance writing full time; since 1991 he has been a prolific contributor of essays, reviews, and articles to many publications, particularly The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books." His multi-award winning books include The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006); a memoir, The Elusive Embrace (1999); two collections of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken (2008) and Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays From the Classics to Pop Culture (2012); a scholarly study of Greek tragedy, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays (2002); a two-volume translation of the poetry of C. P. Cavafy (2009), which included the first English translation of the poet's “Unfinished Poems. Daniel was in Montreal attending the Blue Met Literary Festival when we met to talk about, among other things, his book, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (2017); the Greek view of the universe; disasters; Odysseus being a jerk; readers and texts; Homer, The Odyssey and anthropology; the fluidity of human identity, and its multiplex, relational nature; time; bored Gods; death and meaning; fathers; New Criticism; autobiography in criticism; being intelligent and interesting versus being right; robots and objectivity; self-knowledge and literature; open heart surgery; stupid good reviews; why memoir is such a strong form; Oprah and shared emotion; Cavafy; preserving culture; crazy families; truth, tragedy and myths; the Titanic, the Kennedys and glamour. 

In this episode you will hear John talking about the poem that has been a friend to him - 'Return' by C. P. Cavafy - translated by Rae Dalven. John is our first 'Long Distance' visitor to The Poetry Exchange via Skype! Joining us from Athens, John is in conversation with The Poetry Exchange team members, Fiona Bennett and John Prebble, who were together in London for the conversation. 'Return' is read by John Prebble. ***** Return Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - when the memory of the body awakens, and old desire runs again through the blood; when the lips and the skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again. Return often and take me at night, when the lips and the skin remember... From The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven, with an introduction by W.H. Auden, New York 1961. The reading of the Greek poem you can hear in this episode is from: C.P. Cavafy, The Collected Poems, OUP 2007 (includes a parallel Greek/English text).

Amy Pickworth reads her poem "The Ohio Poem", followed by "Ithaka" by C. P. Cavafy. Amy Pickworth is the author of Bigfoot for Women. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. You can find more of her work at amypickworth.com.

How does literary reference affect the interpretation of largely abstract works? In her recent book, Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press, 2016), Mary Jacobus focuses on the artist’s use of poetry in his work, which often includes handwritten words and phrases—-naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarmé, Rilke, and Cavafy. In the artist’s own words, he “never really separated painting and literature.” Mary Jacobus's opening presentation will be followed by a wide-ranging discussion with Peter de Bolla (English) and Alyce Mahon (Art History) spanning both Twombly's work (currently the focus of a Pompidou retrospective) and that of his friend Robert Rauschenberg (currently the focus of a Tate Modern retrospective). Mary Jacobus, Professor Emerita of English at the University of Cambridge, was Director of CRASSH from 2006-2011. She has written widely on Romanticism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and visual art. Alyce Mahon is a Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Department of History of Art. She is currently researching the American Surrealist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) and curating the first major retrospective exhibition of Tanning for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid for 2018-2019. Peter de Bolla is Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics and Direct of the Concept Lab at CRASSH.

This week's Podcast features interviews from LARB's recent event in San Francisco. Co-hosts Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer speak with Rabih Alameddine about his new book The Angel of History, structures of narrative outside the American mainstream, and the state of poetry in light of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize; and then Jade Chang talks about her novel The Wangs vs The World, the changing shape of the American immigrant tale, and her desire to struggle as a stand-up comic. Then Taschen's Dian Hanson returns to recommend the spectacular erotic photography of China's Ren Hang (soon to be published by Taschen); and we re-listen to CP Cavafy's classic poem Waiting for the Barbarians, pending the arrival of Donald Trump.

In which Stephen Zerance and i talk about revising readings, being papered out from TOO MUCH DAMN SCHOOL, and poetry as a means of exploring the metaphysical other... twitter - @stephnz instagram - @zerance Caligula's Playhouse by Stephen Zerance - www.masonjarpress.xyz/chapbooks-1/ca…gulasplayhouse other things referenced: interview with Dan Holleran - daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/11/in…w-holleran "Waiting for the Barbarians" by C.P. Cavafy - www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-po…detail/51294 Anne Sexton - www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-po…/anne-sexton Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata - ptchanculto.binhoster.com/books/-Lit-%…0Country.pdf Kawabata wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunari_Kawabata Kenneth Anger - www.kennethanger.org/ Strangers with Candy - www.cc.com/shows/strangers-with-candy possible reconstruction of Assyrian temple - c8.alamy.com/comp/EE2J9G/possib…charles-EE2J9G.jpg Karnak Temple - discoveringegypt.com/karnak-temple/

The early 20th Century Alexandrian poet Cavafy and our contemporary American poet Linda Gregg

Nico Muhly talks with Paul Holdengraber about adapting Hitchcock, being challenged to a duel, and the genius of C.P. Cavafy (among other things). For more, visit LitHub.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was on this day in 1863 that the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Coincidentally, it was also on this day in 1933 that he died. On today's "A Classical Day in the Life", we explore the themes of Cavafy's poetry and a musical piece that British composer John Tavener wrote in tribute to the poet.

Foteini Dimirouli (University of Oxford) gives the first talk in Panel 2: Using Cultural Capital.

Foteini Dimirouli (University of Oxford) gives the first talk in Panel 2: Using Cultural Capital.

Louis de Bernières talks about the life and poetry of Cavafy. Louis de Bernières, who lives in Norfolk, published his first novel in 1990 and was selected by Granta magazine as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. Since then he has become well known internationally as a writer, with Captain Corelli's Mandolin winning the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Novel in 1994. His sixth novel, the acclaimed Birds Without Wings, came out in 2004., A Partisan's Daughter (2008) was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village was published in Autumn 2009, followed by de Bernieres’ first collection of poetry, Imagining Alexandria: Poems in Memory of Constantinos Cavafis, in 2013; it is also available in audio, read by the author. Publication of his major new novel, The Dust That Falls From Dreams, was in July 2015, and his new collection of poems, OF LOVE AND DESIRE, is out in February 2016. As well as writing, de Bernieres plays the flute, mandolin and guitar. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Robert Crawford' latest collection Testament (Jonathan Cape) tries out a number of unfashionale styles of poetry, chiefly political and religious, both of which the title alludes to. In our latest podcast, he talks about tackling the subject of Scottish indepedence in poetry, his friend and collaborator, the late Mick Imlah, and translating Cavafy into Scots.

Please join Tiferet Journal on 08/12/14 at 7 PM EST for a conversation with award-winning poet, editor, translator, and critic Aliki Barnstone. Aliki Barnstone's books of poetry include the National Book Critics Circle Notable Book Madly in Love (Carnegie-Mellon, 1997), Blue Earth (Iris, 2004), Wild With It (Sheep Meadow, 2002), Windows in Providence (Curbstone, 1981) and Bright Body (White Pine Press, 2011). Other publications include The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy (W.W. Norton, 2006) and Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development (University Press of New England, 2007)). Barnstone received two Pulitzer Prize nominations. In addition, she edited A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (Schocken), The Calvanist Roots of the Modern Era (University Press of New England), Voices of Light: Spiritual and Visionary Poetry by Women from Ancient Sumeria to Now (Shambhala). Aliki was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Greece in 2006. Her poems and translations have appeared in publications such as The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, New Letters, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, and Virginia Quarterly Review. To learn more about Aliki Barnstone please visit: http://alikibarnstone.com/. And to purchase her books: http://bit.ly/1vb0RQq.   Producer: RJ Jeffreys Co-Producer: Udo Hintz  

The Times Literary Supplement - an occasional series of readings. Alan Jenkins reads a selection of poems from Constantine P. Cavafy. Find out more: http://www.the-tls.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  Sitting outside the Money Museum in Athens, Charles Adrian is joined by musician, performer and teacher Vicky Sachpazi for the 58th Second-Hand Book Factory.  They talk about the science of religiosity, the right way to behave in a room and Lawrence Durrell’s ‘poet of the city’. (Incidentally, if you haven’t already, check out the 55th Page One, in which Charles Adrian talks about Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet!) More information about Trio Tzane is here.  

In an absorbing exchange, acclaimed US poet Mark Doty talks to Richard Scott about some of his most famous poems, the gay experience in literature, the inspiration of Cavafy and Rilke, Doty's new Whitman project, and grieving, courage and desire.

With Kirsty Lang. The writer Louis de Bernières, best known for his novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, discusses his first volume of poetry, Imagining Alexandria. De Bernieres has been writing poems since he was 12, but didn't want to publish until he felt he had 'hit his peak'. He discusses how he was inspired by his love of the Greek poet Cavafy to write about the ancient world, love affairs and the fleeting nature of youth. We assess the form of the bookies' favourites for the next Doctor Who, including Peter Capaldi, better known as foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It. Singer-songwriter Cerys Matthews reveals her choice for Cultural Exchange. As John Burningham's first book Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers reaches its 50th anniversary, Kirsty visits the illustrator and author in his home and talks about the books, his unconventional education, and his addiction to online auctions. Producer Stephen Hughes.

Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel  written by the South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. Published in 1980 it won the James Tait Black Memorial and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prizes for fiction. The book's title comes from a poem by Greek-Egyptian poet Constantine P. Cavafy. American composer Philip Glass wrote an opera based on the book which premiered in 2005. In August 2012, the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town presented Alexandre Marine's stage adaptation of the novel. The production ran in Montreal at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts early in 2013. I met with the play's Canadian-South African producer Maurice Podbrey at his home in Montreal to talk about the play, the novel, Coetzee, South Africa, Barbarians and the challenges of adapting books for the stage.  

IN THIS HAPPY PLACE MY SERIOUS HEART HAS MADE: CELEBRATING SINCERITY–JACK GILBERT AND THE POETRY OF MAGNITUDE, INCLUDING LINDA GREGG, GERALD STERN, C.K. WILLIAMS, AND MORE POETRY IN THE NEWS, HALLELUIAH–LEONARD COHEN, CAVAFY, AND CULTURAL COMMENTATORS JOHN PENNER (LA TIMES) … Continue reading → The post Poetry That Matters to Our Life first appeared on Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown.