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HAP – A Significant Visit: His Excellency Kyriakos Pogiatzis, Consul General of the Republic of Cyprus, Visits Queens College

The Hellenic American Project (HAP) and the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies were honored to host His Excellency Kyriakos Pogiatzis, Consul General of the Republic of Cyprus, at Queens College on Monday, February 9. The visit coincided with World Greek Language Day, further underscoring the significance of the occasion for the College’s academic and cultural community.
During his visit, Consul General Pogiatzis met with Queens College administrators, faculty members, students, and representatives of the Center’s Advisory Board. He was welcomed by the Director of the Center and the HAP team for a discussion focused on advancing the study and preservation of Greek language and culture, as well as on strengthening academic and cultural partnerships between Queens College and the Greek and Cypriot communities of New York.
The Consul General and his accompanying guests were then offered a guided tour of the Hellenic American Project Museum and Library, where they viewed the “Never Forget” photographic exhibition. This exhibition commemorates the Cyprus Invasion of 1974 and marks the 50th anniversary of the Pancyprian Association, honoring the resilience, memory, and unity of the Cypriot people and their diaspora.
The Hellenic American Project extends its sincere appreciation to Consul General Pogiatzis for his visit and for his thoughtful engagement with HAP’s ongoing mission to document, preserve, and promote the history and culture of the Greek and Cypriot American diaspora.
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Hellenic American Project (HAP) – Queens College, CUNY
Announcement: Poet of the Greek Diaspora Nicos Alexiou Featured in Digital Anthology “Poetry from the 21st Century”

Queens, New York – The Hellenic American Project (HAP), Department of Sociology, Queens College, CUNY, is pleased to announce that Nicos Alexiou, poet of the Greek Diaspora in the United States and Founder and Director of HAP, has been selected for inclusion in the digital anthology “Poetry from the 21st Century” of the Institute of Experimental Arts. This international initiative charts the contemporary poetic landscape of the past twenty-five years, highlighting significant voices that shape modern Greek and diaspora poetry.
The digital platform presents bilingual works, in Greek and English, by more than 220 poets whose collections have appeared since 2000, offering a broad panorama of the aesthetic, thematic, and stylistic developments in 21st‑century Greek poetry. Within this context, Professor Nicos Alexiou, also President of The Greek Writers Guild of America, is featured as one of the contributors whose work brings a distinct diasporic perspective to the evolving Greek poetic discourse.

The Digital Anthology “Poetry from the 21st Century”

The Institute of Experimental Arts has developed “Poetry from the 21st Century” as a digital platform dedicated to systematically mapping the “new” poetic landscape in Greece and the Greek-speaking world. The anthology brings together poets from numerous publishing houses whose first books were published after 2000, documenting the trends, thematic concerns, and aesthetic explorations that have emerged in a period marked by intense social, political, and cultural change.
Accessible online, the platform enables readers to navigate a rich spectrum of poetic voices, compare styles and schools, and identify both common anxieties and distinct departures in contemporary Greek poetry. It also serves as a valuable resource for scholars and researchers interested in the poetry of the early 21st century, effectively functioning as a dynamic “living archive” of the period.
Diaspora Voice: “The Radiant Youth”
Within the anthology, special prominence is given to Nicos Alexiou’s bilingual presentation of the poem “Τα Φωτεινά Παιδιά” / “The Radiant Youth.” The poem engages with memory, historical violence, and loss, illuminating the figures of young people who “rushed down from the sky” and were destroyed in a world of killers, as a powerful allegory for the sacrifices of a country that has traveled “for years among murderers.”

Alexiou’s poetic voice—shaped by the experience of migration, political and social reflection, and profound historical consciousness—bridges Greece and America, homeland and Diaspora. Through works such as “The Radiant Youth,” diaspora poetry is presented not merely as an expression of nostalgia, but as a critical mirror of collective traumas and ongoing quests for identity.

Significance for the Greek-American Community

The inclusion of Nicos Alexiou in this extensive and carefully curated anthology formally connects a Greek‑American diaspora poet to a broad network of contemporary Greek poets whose work defines today’s Greek poetic discourse. It also signals recognition of diaspora creativity by an institution active in the international field of artistic and experimental poetry, reinforcing the role of Greek‑American cultural production within global Hellenism.
For the Greek‑American community, this distinction underlines that the Diaspora functions not merely as an extension of the homeland, but as an active and creative nucleus of it. In this sense, poetry becomes a channel linking generations, geographies, and historical experiences, strengthening the bonds of Greek language and culture within an increasingly polycentric, globalized world.

About the Hellenic American Project (HAP)

The Hellenic American Project (HAP), Department of Sociology, Queens College, CUNY, is a nonprofit research, archival, and educational program dedicated to documenting and presenting the Hellenic American presence in the United States from the first major immigration wave around 1900 to the present. HAP functions as a research facility, archive, Greek American Library, museum, and event space, combining oral histories, population data, cultural artifacts, and public programs to preserve and interpret the Greek‑American experience.
Through its exhibitions, interviews, and collaborations, HAP seeks to cultivate a continuous narrative of Greek‑American history and culture and to make this material accessible to scholars, students, and the broader public.
Contact:
Hellenic American Project (HAP) – Department of Sociology, Queens College, CUNY
Queens Hall, Room 015, 65‑21 Main Street, Queens, NY 11367
Email: [email protected] | Director: [email protected]

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Διεθνής Διάκριση για τον Ποιητή Νίκο Αλεξίου - Anamniseis Ξεχωριστή διάκριση έλαβε ο ποιητής Νίκος Αλεξίου, καθώς συμπεριλήφθηκε στην ψηφιακή ανθολογία «Ποίηση από τον 21ο Αιώνα»