| Title | “Sea of Hope” |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | The Poetry Circle of Melissa Network’s Women |
| Contributor | Nadina Christopoulou (author) |
| A.E. Stallings (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0417.1.18 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/crossings-migrant-knowledges-migrant-forms/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2025-10-03 |
| Page range | pp. 291–302 |
| Print length | 12 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Nadina Christopoulou is cofounder and Director of Melissa Network in Greece. Her research work focuses on diaspora narratives, migration, and childhood, as well as migrant women’s solidarity networks. On the basis of that research, together with migrant women leaders in Greece, she co-founded Melissa Network in 2014, an award-winning organization with women members from over forty-five countries. She has also been working on the creation of a visual and narrative archive of the migration spiral that Greece has experienced in the past century, hoping one day to turn it into a museum of movements.
A.E. Stallings is a US-born poet, translator, and critic who lives in Athens. Her most recent poetry volume is a selection of poems, This Afterlife: Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2022). Her most recent book of verse translation is an illustrated version of the pseudo-Homeric The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (Paul Dry Books, 2019). She is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and prizes, including a Guggenheim and a MacArthur fellowship. Since 2015, she has been running a poetry workshop with refugee women at the Melissa Network for Migrant Women in Athens. She was elected the forty-seventh Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2023.