Interview on film & poetry w/ Stefania Irene Marthakis in The Cafe Review
Spuyten Duyvil, January 2022
In these inventive Acts, “Light cannot keep quiet” because it cannot stop bouncing off language, trying to track a body in motion in relation to its present and past. What is the ancestry words seek? This book reads like a kaleidoscopic memory tool that doesn’t solve the mystery but allows us to handle it with skill, to cut, to dwell.
— Eleni Sikelianos
Bibliography
chapbooks
A Filmmaker’s Handbook
chapbook - 2017
The Summer Flood Came Home
chapbook - 2016
The Picture Show
chapbook - 2016
Stefania Irene Marthakis was born in Northwest Indiana just outside of Chicago. Stefania holds a BA in Poetry & Theatre from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA in Poetry & Poetics from Naropa University (Boulder, CO). She interned and volunteered at The Poetry Project (NYC) and started her Ph.D. at The European Graduate School (Saas-Fee, Switzerland and Valletta, Malta). Stefania is the author of Case Memory (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022) as well as three chapbooks: The Summer Flood Came Home, The Picture Show (Another New Calligraphy, 2016), and A Filmmaker’s Handbook (dancing girl press, 2017). Her poems can be found in Columbia Poetry Review, New American Writing, Bombay Gin, The Recluse, Lungfull!, Tarpaulin Sky Press, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. Currently, Stefania is a Grant & Contract Administrator through the Office of Research Administration at the University of Maine.