ABOUT VASILIKI KATSAROU ...

Vasiliki Katsarou is a 2010 Pushcart Prize-nominated poet who studied comparative literature at Harvard and philosophy and film at the Sorbonne.  In 2010, she collaborated with Japanese painter Minako Ota on the poetry and painting exhibition “Fragments of the Muse” at Swan Creek Gallery in Lambertville, NJ.  Her poems have been published in U.S.1 Worksheets and wicked alice.  She co-edited and wrote the Introduction to Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems.  She also holds an MFA in filmmaking from Boston University.  She wrote and directed the prize-winning 35mm short film Fruitlands 1843.  She currently lives in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

A SAMPLE FROM VASILIKI KATSAROU ...

Portmanteau

Something green
the length of my body
has dropped off my body

Arms without
arms

Seams
torn

My overcoat
lies
upon your vacant gray

Eyes like loose buttons