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  • Kathleen Granchelli
    November 30, 2025
    Kathleen Granchelli is an emerging poet living in Massachusetts. Following a four-year stint teaching English at the high-school and college levels, she moved to Greece to explore the culture. . . .
  • Petros Tourikis
    November 23, 2025
    Petros Tourikis holds a Master’s degree in Ancient History and in his spare time enjoys writing about Greece, both old and new. Petros lives and works in Munich.   Medea On mirrored . . .
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    George Kalamaras, former Indiana Poet Laureate (2014–2016), is Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne where he taught for thirty-two years. He is the author of . . .
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    Constantinos N. Makris, born in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1982, is the author of several novels, poetry, and short story collections, including the award-winning The Straw Killer and Other Stories . . .
  • Martha Bird
    October 30, 2025
    Martha Bird is a 27 year old writer, filmmaker and political activist originally from the north of England, currently based in (the much sunnier) Rome. Her work addresses themes of gender and . . .
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TO ASCLEPIUS

Even to Miletus came the son of the Healer to succour the physician of diseases Nicias, who ever day by day draws near him with offerings, and had this image carved of fragrant cedar, promising high recompence to Eetion for his cunning of hand; and he put all his art into the work.

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