Poetry

The Breeder presents artist Sofia Stevi's first solo exhibition with the Athens gallery, titled "Lizzie & Laura." For this new series of paintings, the 34-year-old artist has drawn inspiration from Christina Rossetti's poem "Goblin Market," which tells the story of a fraught encounter between sisters Laura and Lizzie and evil goblin merchants, to raise themes of temptation, sexual exchange

Novinite is republishing another story by our reader Leon de Leeuw about his visit to the town of Chirpan in Central Bulgaria.

We have already reprinted his accounts on Tran Gorge, Svoge and the Iskar gorge and Lakatnik.

Greek poet Kiki Dimoula will speak with Luxembourgian poet Anise Koltz at the French Institute in Athens on Monday, October 31, on the occasion of the publication of new a volume of poetry by France's Gallimard Editions, "Somnambule du Jour," which features works by Koltz. The discussion will be coordinated by translator-literary critic Cecile Inglessis-Margellos.

Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?

The front window of a Muslim butcher's shop was sprayed with bullets during the night on the French island of Corsica, where communal tensions have flared in recent months, local prosecutor Eric Bouillard said Feb. 3.

This year's four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare is not just an opportunity to commemorate one of the greatest playwrights of all time. It is a moment to celebrate the extraordinary ongoing influence of a man who - to borrow from his own description of Julius Caesar -"doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus."

A French convert to Islam and her husband were under arrest on Dec. 23 after police discovered a fake stomach used to make someone appear pregnant.

The couple from the southern town of Montpellier, aged 23 and 35 respectively, were initially arrested on charges of condoning terrorism, a judicial source said.    

Do?u? Group, in an attempt to support faculties of fine arts students, has initiated a social responsibility project and created a platform entitled "A place for art with Do?u?." 

Thirteenth-century mystic Mevlana Jalaladdin Rumi was celebrated on the 742nd anniversary of his death in the Central Anatolian province of Konya

Greek author and columnist Yiannis Kakoulides succumbed to his battle with cancer at the age of 69 years. The award-winning author wrote poetry, prose, scripts and lyrics for over 500 well-known Greek songs. His poems have been published in numerous Greek and foreign periodicals and have been translated into many languages.