Haris Vlavianos

Haris Vlavianos (Greek: Χάρης Βλαβιανός; born 1957), is a contemporary Greek poet.

Haris Vlavianos studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol. He also studied Politics and History at Trinity College in Oxford. His doctoral thesis, entitled "Greece 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War", was published by Macmillan in 1992. He is professor of History at the American College of Greece.

He has published ten collections of poetry, the most recent of them being Sonnets of Despair, in 2011. 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), as well a book with Haikus, entitled, The History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haikus: From the Presocratics to Derrida. 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), T. S. Eliot (The Four Quartets, 2012).

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