Giorgos Chantzis
Giorgos Chantzis was born in 1972 in Athens. He studied Education and Philosophy (Universtiy of Athens) and English Literary Translation (The European Center for the Translation of Literature and the Human Sciences). He writes poetry criticism for the daily paper Eleftherotypia and the poetry journal Poiitiki [Poetics]. Since 2006 he has directed the seminar series Contemporary Poetry Readings at the philosophy café Dasein in Athens. His poetry is published in Karaoke Poetry Bar, (ed. Futura, Athens 2007), Noveltly Within or Beyond Language, Contemporary, Anthology of young Greek Poets, (ed. Gavriilidis Athens 2009), Bella Boom, (forthcoming, 2009).
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Found in Translation
"I’ve got this sickly taste in my mouth... "
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The Third Thing
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