Eleni Sikelianos and Julie Carr: the William Corbett Poetry Series
Building 2, Room 105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Born into a family of bohemians, poets, tree workers, ne’er-do-wells, visionaries, and smalltime sort-of hustlers, Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, writer, collaborator, and “master of mixing genres” (according to TimeOut). Kirkus has called her most recent book, Memory Rehearsal (City Lights, 2026; the third book in her trilogy of ancestral encounters) “a moving family memoir and a triumph of cultural archaeology.” Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral lineages. Her tenth book of poetry, Your Kingdom came out in 2023. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages, and she has in turn translated works by Jacques Roubaud, Sabine Macher, and, most recently, Mohamed Leftah. She grew up in earshot of the ocean, in small coastal towns near Goleta, and has since lived in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Athens (Greece), Boulder (Colorado), and Providence. Julie Carr’s recent books are The Garden (Overflow, book one); Underscore; Mud, Blood, & Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, & Spiritualism in the American West. Her co-translations of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess–The Factory and The Book of Skies, were published by Commune…