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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 .

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 . 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.


COLLECTIONS

  • ''Beginning with O'' (Yale, 1977).

  • ''Soie Sauvage'' ( Copper Canyon Press , 1979).

  • ''Pastoral Jazz'' (Copper Canyon Press, 1983).

  • With Jane Miller : ''Black Holes, Black Stockings'' (Wesleyan, 1985).

  • ''Perpetua'' (Copper Canyon, 1989).

  • With T. Begley : '' Sappho’s Gymnasium'' (Copper Canyon Press, 1994).

  • ''Rave: Poems, 1975-1999'' (Copper Canyon Press, 1999).



TRANSLATIONS

  • ''What I Love'': Selected Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon, 1986).

  • ''The Little Mariner'' by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon, 1988).

  • ''Eros, Eros, Eros'': Selected and Last Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon,1989).