Haris Vlavianos (gr. ????? ?????????, born in Rome, 1957), is a contemporary Greek poet.

He studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol (B.Sc) and Politics and History (M.Phil, D.Phil) at the University of Oxford (Trinity College, Oxford). His doctoral thesis entitled, "Greece 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War", was published by Macmillan (1992).

He has published nine collections of poetry, the most recent being "Vacation in Reality" (2009). He has also published a collection of thoughts and aphorisms on poetry and poetics entitled, "The Other Place" (1994) and a book of essays entitled, "Does Poetry Matter?: Thoughts on the Uselessness of an Art" (2007). He has translated into Greek, the works of well-known writers such as: Walt Whitman ("Selected Poems", 1986), Ezra Pound ("Hugh Selwyn Mauberley", 1987; "Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXX", 1991), Michael Longley ("Selected Poems", 1992), Wallace Stevens ("Adagia", 1993), John Ashbery ("Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror", 1995), Carlo Goldoni ("The Venetian Twins", 1996), William Blake ("The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1997), Zbigniew Herbert ("The Soul of Mr. Cogito and Other Poems", 2001), Fernando Pessoa ("Herostrato: The Quest for Immortality", 2002; "Marginalia", 2005), e. e. cummings ("33 x 3 x 33: Poems, Essays, Fragments", 2004), Wallace Stevens, ("Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and Other Poems", 2007), Michael Longley, ("Homer's Octopus and Other Poems", 2008).

He is the editor of the literary Greek journal "????????" (Poetics). His collection of poems "Adieu" (1996) has been translated into English by David Connolly and published in the UK by Birmingham University Press (1998). A Selected Poems volume of his translated into German by Dadi Sideri Speck, into Dutch by Hero Hokwerda and into Italian by Nicola Crocetti, has been published by "Romiosini Press" (2001), "Rotterdam Poetry International"(2000) and "Poesia" (2006) respectively. A selection of his poetry has been translated into Catalan by Joaquim Jesti and published in Barcelona by the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. "Selected Poems" volumes of his, translated into German by Torsten Israel, into Dutch by Hero Hokwerda and into English by Mina Karavanta, were published by "Hanser" (with an introduction by Joachim Sartorius), by "Ovolos" and "Dedalus Publications" (with an introduction by Michael Longley) respectively. His poetry has also been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Albanian, and Swedish and has appeared in numerous European and America journals and anthologies.

He is Professor of History and History of Ideas at the American College of Greece Deree College - Academics - Faculty.

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