Angelo Nikolopoulos

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Angelo Nikolopoulos
Born (1981-09-24) September 24, 1981 (age 42)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationWriter
Period2000s–present

Angelo Nikolopoulos (born September 24, 1981) is an American poet.

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Nikolopoulos's first book of poems,Obscenely Yours, was published by Alice James Books in April 2013 [1] and was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. [2] His second book of poetry, Pleasure, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. [3]

His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry (2012), [4] Best New Poets (2011), [5] Boston Review , [6] Fence , Los Angeles Review of Books , New York Quarterly , Poetry Society of America, Tin House , TriQuarterly , and elsewhere. [7]

Biography

Nikolopoulos received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Creative Writing and Literature from New York University, where he studied with the poet Sharon Olds. [8] He credits his decision to become a poet to finding a tattered copy of Olds's first book of poetry, Satan Says, in a taxi in San Francisco as a teenager. [9]

He is the founder and host of The White Swallow Reading Series at the iconic Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Since 2013, the series has featured writers Christopher Bram, Michael Cunningham, Michael Dickman, Alex Dimitrov, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, A.M. Homes, Wayne Koestenbaum, Timothy Liu, Dorothea Lasky, Paul Legault, Susanna Moore, Eileen Myles, Brenda Shaughnessy, Gerald Stern, Justin Torres, Jean Valentine, Susan Wheeler, and Edmund White. [10]

He teaches at New York University [11] and Rutgers University, [12] is the Program Administrator for the Creative Writing Program at New York University, [13] and lives in New York City. [14]

Works

Books

Selected poems

Poems in anthologies

Awards and honors

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  2. ↑ "Lambda Literary". Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Faculty". as.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on June 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ Holland, Walter (2012-25-12). The Best American Poetry 2012. Lambda Literary.
  5. ↑ Best New Poets Final Fifty. Best New Poets.
  6. ↑ Nikolopoulos, Angelo (2011-01-05). "Self Suck". Boston Review.
  7. ↑ "Bio".
  8. ↑ Authors Archived August 19, 2013, at the Wayback Machine . Alice James Books.
  9. ↑ Alice James Books Spring 2013 Newsletter. Alice James Books.
  10. ↑ Performances. Cornelia Street Cafe.
  11. ↑ . New York University.
  12. ↑ Writers House Archived 2012-11-01 at the Wayback Machine . Rutgers University.
  13. ↑ . NYU.edu.
  14. ↑ "Bio".
  15. ↑ "Angelo Nikolopoulos - Angelo Nikolopoulos Travel and Study Grant | the Jerome Foundation". Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Lambda Literary". Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
  17. ↑ "The MacDowell Colony". Archived from the original on May 26, 2009. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
  18. ↑ "D.A. Powell salutes Angelo Nikolopoulos". May 13, 2011.
  19. ↑ "Angelo Nikolopoulos › Residency 2010 › Poetry › Saltonstall". www.saltonstall.org. Archived from the original on October 27, 2014.
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