The Hellenic American Union and the poetry readings “With Words (It Happens)” present, in the first event of their 15th year, a tribute to Manolis Anagnostakis’ iconic anthology, The Low Voice (1990). The event will take place on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. at the Hellenic American Union Theater. The Hellenic American Union and the poetry readings “With Words (It Happens)” present, in the first event of their 15th year, a tribute to Manolis Anagnostakis’ iconic anthology, The Low Voice (1990). The event will take place on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. at the Hellenic American Union Theater.(Μassalias 22, Athens).

This is the 16th – and somewhat peculiar – “stop” in revisiting the modern Greek poetic canon that “With Words (It Happens)” makes: after Solomos; Kalvos; Cavafy beyond his 154 “Recognized” poems; Papatsonis; Karyotakis and his contemporaries; Polydouri, Axioti, Aravantinou, and Hatzilazarou; Elytis and his poetic interlocutors; Embeirikos; Engonopoulos; Karellis; the four books of the Occupation: by Gatsos, Engonopoulos, Papatsonis, and Sikelianos; Papaditsas; Vakalo; Fokas; and Laïna.

Thirty-five years after Manolis Anagnostakis’s important and seminal publication, The Low Voice – Lyrics of a bygone era in old rhythms, which anthologized ‘traditional’ poems with meter and rhyme, from Lorenzo Mavilis (1860-1912) to Foti Paschalinos (1913-1943), contemporary poets select, reread, and comment on these poems.

Participants: Orpheas Apergis, Stella Voskari, Phoebe Giannisi, Lenia Zafeiropoulou, Panagiotis Ioannidis, George Katraouras, Dimitra Kotoula, Evi Liakea, Pavlina Marvin, Stergios Mitas, Efstathia P., Olga Papakosta, Akis Parafelas, and Christos Siorikis.