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About Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas is a Greek poet, essayist, translator and independent scholar with specialization on modernism, postmodernism and haiku. His poems and essays have been translated in nine languages. He lives in Paris, France. You can find him at http://livadaspoetry.blogspot.fr. Learn more about Yannis at Wikipedia.

Neeli Cherkovski’s Elegy For My Beat Generation, reviewed by Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas

Elegy For My Beat Generation - poetry by Neeli Cherkovski

Elegy For My Beat Generation by Neeli Cherkovski / Lithic Press / 978-0-9975017-9-7 The Beat Generation as a literary phenomenon was over, or more correctly, was completed, with the last works of … [Read more...]

Autogéométrie: The Art Brut of Francis Palanc

Yannis Livadas

Francis Palanc by Yannis Livadas

What is the sociological criterion to be one among those who are strangers to the established artistic circles yet produce spontaneously inventive works of art? Sometimes it may mean nothing, yet … [Read more...]

Visions of Cody, a book of martyrdom

Yannis Livadas

"Time is the purest and cheapest form of doom." -- Jack Kerouac Apropos Kerouac, I think that there is nothing more important, more significant today, than reading his books and evaluate them … [Read more...]

Two poems by Vasilis Steriadis, translated by Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas

Vasilis Steriadis poems in English

The Greek poet Vasilis Steriadis [Βασίλης Στεριάδης] was one of the leading figures of Greek poetry during the period 1970-2000. Steriadis was born in 1947 in Volos and died in Athens, where he was … [Read more...]

Lucien Stryk: Zen in the art of translating Zen poetry

Yannis Livadas

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Once someone can leave aside the narrowminded attitude, a parallelism with the cultural outcome of the long-gone “counterculture”, and a few more notions considering guidelines for every-day … [Read more...]

The sardonic pilgrimage of Jack Kerouac

Yannis Livadas

Kerouac books - French

The works of Jack Kerouac constitute a rich branch of the American literary tradition, which -- through the craftiness of such important writers, like Kerouac himself -- managed to escape the swamp of … [Read more...]

Yannis Livadas: A double interview

Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas double interview

These interviews were conducted for Quorum Magazine, which is based in Croatia. This is their first appearance in English. Interview No. 1 Tomica Bajsic interviewed the poet Yannis Livadas for … [Read more...]

The Muse is on the loose

Yannis Livadas

elevation - photo by empty mirror

The Muse is on the loose and wastes herself away on some cretin. A severe goer through everyday scandals. It is well worth risking a damnation or two. Almost anything stumbles upon its … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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