For Greek-American and Bend-based writer Stephanos Papadopoulos, the poems collected in his recent book The Black Sea embody the “inherited memories” of his ancestors. His grandfather, a tobacco merchant who was born in Samsounda, recounted to his grandchildren the trials of the Pontic Greeks of The Black Sea, and the Asia Minor Catastrophe of the […]
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From Athens to Paris to, of course, Bend
Greek-American-Bend Poet Stephanos Papadopoulos kicks off poetry month