The Choir

Olga Broumas is a Greek poet, educated at the University of Pennsylvania and later at the University of Oregon, where she received a master’s in creative writing. Her seven collections of poetry include Beginning with O, erotic poems that led to her selection by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1977. She is also well-known as a translator of Greek poet Odysseas Elytis. Since 1995 Broumas has been both poet in residence and director of creative writing at Brandeis University.