Panos Bosnakis

Panos Bosnakis has taught extensively Greek Language and Literature and Theory of Literature at Ohio State University, Princeton University and University of Missouri. Since 2002 he has been the Founder-Director of the Center for Avant-Garde Poetics, an international Foundation based in Greece. He has written and lectured extensively throughout the US and Europe on Avant-Garde and Greek poetics. His main research lies in the theoretical conception of a Non-Western Avant-Garde taking examples for non-Western European, Asian and other poetry.

He began writing poetry in the mid-1970s with a series of surrealist poems entitled "Contraction of Muscles" and from 1982 on he turned to poets of the Black Mountain Movement, San Francisco Renaissance and Language poetry. His poetry follows the style of American Language poetry adding also transcultural and hybrid definitions of language and place. At the same time, he writes poems in other styles, such as Neo-cosmopolitan, Minimalist, Performance and Sound Poetry. His main language poem is REDO A, a long book-length poem. Other works include EROS THE AUTOMATIC WRITING (Minimalism), THE ELEMENTALS, O NO MIN A TE, SIGNIFICATION, AIANA KINEA (following the objectivist tradition by Charles Olson and George Oppen), and Po’ ems, ιΑ4, XYZ(s), WUDZ, ΙΩΔΗ, SIN GAP OORE LANG/ I SING LUNGDO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?, YA QUE YO E YO YA O EN Y, MOLLE ALGA SULL’ ACQUA, DRUMPHONICS, DIAPHTHONICS, SATOR, VOCALISSER, EMIGRAPHS that follow experimental forms of Performance and Sound Poetries.