Elena Georgiou

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I interviewed Mark Doty for WGDR

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Praised by the New York Times for his “dazzling, tactile grasp of the world,” award-winning poet, Goddard alumnus (MFA ’80), and former faculty member Mark Doty read from his work at Goddard’s Haybarn Theater on January 6, 2016.  (Presented by Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program’s Visiting Writers Series).  The next morning, I had the opportunity to interview mark on the radio for WGDR.

Mark begins:

“I have always been concerned with evanescence and with disappearance. I am a natural born elegist; I look at the world and I think about what’s vanishing. I think about what we love and how it moves away from us and how we move away from what we love. But I never thought so much about time as a process, time as… is it an entity? Is it an energy? Is it the nature of things simply to move forward in some way? What is that moving forward?”

Listen to the whole conversation here:

Mark Doty Interview on WGDR Radio – Jan. 7, 2016 from Goddard College on Vimeo.

NEW BOOK FOR 2018!

The Immigrant's Refrigerator
Fiction. Short Stories.
GenPop Books, 2018

If luck is on an author’s side, a book reaches its audience at the right time. Elena Georgiou’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator can confidently make this claim. Populated with a cast of characters that shine the light on what it means to be an outsider in the early part of the 21st century, this story collection takes its reader into the private lives of those who have entered a country legally, others who were forced to enter illegally, and the rest who call a country home as a result of birth; characters searching for what they need to sustain them on their journeys towards a future that will not only be a place of refuge, but also one of hope.

Read more about The Immigrant's Refrigerator

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