Olga Broumas

Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949, Hermoupolis), is a Greek-American poetry|American poet]].

Life
Born and raised in Greece, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania; she earned her Bachelor's degree in architecture. She later went on to earn a Master's degree in creative writing from the University of Oregon.

Her first collection of poems, Beginning with O, contains erotic poems toward her women lovers.

She has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995. She spends her summers on Cape Cod, where she, in the Eighties, founded and taught at a school for female artists called Freehand, Inc.

Recognition
Broumas was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1977, the first non-native speaker of English to receive this award. Other honors have included a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Poetry

 * Beginning with O. Yale University Press, 1977.
 * Soie Sauvage. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1979.
 * Pastoral Jazz. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1983).
 * Black Holes, Black Stockings (with Jane Miller). Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1985.
 * Perpetua. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1989.
 *  Sappho’s Gymnasium (wWith T. Begley). Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1994.
 * Rave: Poems, 1975-1999. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1999.

Translations

 * What I Love: Selected Poems by Odysseas Elytis. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1986.
 * Odysseas Elytis, The Little Mariner. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1988.
 * Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected and Last Poems by Odysseas Elytis. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press,1998.