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Eleni Stecopoulos

Eleni Stecopoulos is the author of Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing (Nightboat, 2024), a book of essays; Visceral Poetics (2016), a hybrid of criticism and memoir; and Armies of Compassion (2010), a collection of poems. She taught at Bard College and the University of San Francisco and now works with nonfiction writers and poets as an independent book editor. Born in New York City, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

‘Keeping time together’: Andy Jackson in Conversation with Eleni Stecopoulos

I first heard of the work of Eleni Stecopoulos while in the US in 2013. I was in San Francisco to spend an afternoon chatting and swimming with Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus, both disability culture activists and writers. Eleni had at the time been working on a series of public conversations and programs at The Poetry Centre at San Francisco State University called The Poetics of Healing. Eleni is a poet and an essayist whose work on embodiment is always political, and vice versa. Petra had hoped to introduce us, but the timing wasn’t right.

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On the night the congresswoman wore her ballgown emblazoned with TAX THE RICH and the left muttered, Eat the rich, I dream of being a cannibal. We’re on the move, not to shut down the port or expel Patriot Prayer—no, …

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