Back when I was in undergrad at Scripps, my thesis involved the relationship between poets and painters. Later, at grad school at The New School, I continued to study the way visual and literary artists influenced each other other and collaborated with one another. It’s endlessly fascinating and much more broad than the time periods of the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s that I tend to focus on. Burnside Writers Collective just published a survey I did that shows painters honoring poets throughout the ages called “Painters in Praise of Poets.”
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Stephanie Nikolopoulos is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and speaker based in New York City.
She is the coauthor, with Paul Maher Jr., of "Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road.'"
You can email her at stephanie_701 {@} yahoo.com
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Lately, I’ve felt the wanderess awakening once again within me. I’ve been desirous of a new adventure. Not a vacation, mind you. A life-shifting adventure. Something is stirring within me. I’m not sure where it will lead me except back to the blank page waiting to be filled.
Family lore has it that a fellow seaman told my father that Swedish women were the most beautiful women in the world (the last photo really illustrates this! 😂), and so my father set out from Greece to meet a Swede. He met a leggy Swedish American, and married her.
When you love traveling, it can sometimes feel stifling to go to the same place more than once, but I have a genetic pull toward Sweden. There aren’t any touristy type things I want to do there. It just feels right to be there — the way New York City feels right to me.
That moment you hit flow state with your work.
“New York provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.”
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