Hello artcys,

This is my second blog post where I will be talking about the reasons I’m choosing the poetry project. So the main reason I chose this project is simply that I love poetry. Coming from Cyprus and doing Greek literature in school we learned a lot of poetry (C.P.Cavafy, G. Seferis, Y. Ritsos and more). However, as I grew up and learned the English language, I started to also read modern English poetry (Rupi Kaur, Christopher Poindexter, and others). That made me realize how much I like and enjoy modern pieces and poetry in general as well as appreciate much more the poetry in my own language. Now I enjoy both reading and writing poetry. Another reason I chose this project is that I believe it is highly important to teach young people to love poetry in every language that it comes in because it’s a magical and easy way of expressing yourself. Every language is special and has its own special words that can’t always be translated and, in my opinion, a poem in a different language that can’t be easily translated is unique. At the bottom, I will be adding a picture of one of my favorite greek poems and the english translation.
See you in the next one,
Antio!