Born in California on Walt Whitman’s birthday, Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, writer, and "a master of mixing genres." She grew up in earshot of the ocean, in small coastal towns near Santa Barbara, and has since lived in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Athens (Greece), Boulder (Colorado), and Providence. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral lineages. Your Kingdom (Winter 2023) will be her tenth book of poetry, riding alongside two memoir-verse-image-novels.

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Excited to be reading in #emilydickinson homestead with Dara Barrois/Dixon and Gillian Conoley! We’ll be in the house, and you can visit (virtually)! May 18, 6pm ET, link in bio.
Cloudy day, saw the fox’s tail from the cliff just as it ripped around the rocks on the beach. Scrambling down, found the traces. Little messages in the sand, of flight. Gloucester, Mass. Olson town.
Thursday, May 4 #reverseengineer #yourkingdom #gloucesterwriterscenter
My favorite neighborhood sign of spring — comes out every year — and the olfactory-explosive event IS worth stopping for. See #viburnum in #williamcarloswilliams where #thepureproductsofamericagocrazy
Happy birthday in the after-party, beloved poet-friend #akilaholiver. #bibliomancy for your bday, from #atoastinthehouseoffriends: “some of sweet surrender holding the space”
Καλό Πάσχα : Happy (Greek•Coptic•Orthodox) Easter! Among the favorite flowers I’ve planted… #helleboruspoetry #snakesheadfritallary “each of us like you / has passed through drift of
Happy 55 to my love. For whom the birthday bibliomancy says: “the quarters of the moon … walked this ground” #happybirthdaylairdhunt #amandaberenguer (Translation K. Dykstra)
“You are beautiful when you protest” in Paris. #manifestationparis

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  • Smart review of Your Kingdom at the Poetry Foundation

  • Thanks to Katie Yee at LitHub for including Your Kingdom in her list of 20 New Books to Read Right Now.

  • And to LitHub for featuring the poem “To Do: Write Cephalopod Poem, from Your Kingdom

  • Thank you to Granta for publishing two poems from Your Kingdom.

  • Your Kingdom orders available here (support indie bookstores!)

  • Opening movement of “Your Kingdom” included in the super feelings show, de Appel, Amsterdam, curated by Melissa Appleton, Monika Georgieva, Ka-Tjun Hau and Chala Itai Westerman. Thank you to Mayra Rodríguez Castro!

  • Essay on place, ​​“A Few Topographies: in a Place Apart To Dwell,” coming out in the upcoming issue of Paideuma: Poems and Places fall 2022.

  • Excerpt from my Delphi ancestral project (working title, The Human Performance) coming out in Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola and Diego Gerard’s diSONARE 09.