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==Country==

Greece

==Birth - Death==

1949 -

==Occupation==

Poet

==Notable Achievements==



==Description==

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. Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995