StarWound and Interiors –Intercultural Connection through Song & Poetry

Soul Bone Lit Fest & MIU's MFA in Creative Writing

StarWound and Interiors – a Vision of Intercultural Connection through Song and Poetry with StarWound and Poets from various US Universities

MIU MFA in Creative Writing Showcase Fall 2025

Welcome to our upcoming Fall ‘25  MIU MFA in Creative Writing Showcase, a co-collaboration with the Soul Bone℠ Literary Festival. It runs from Aug. 18 - 31. All events are online, free, and open to the public. Please join us!

Soul Bone Literary Festival Fall 2025

Welcome to our upcoming Fall ‘25 Soul Bone℠ Literary Festival, which is an MIU MFA in Creative Writing Showcase and runs from Aug. 18 - 31. All events are online, free, and open to the public. Please join us!

StarWound is an Anglophone sophisti-pop trio based in Athens, Greece made up of three members: Konstantina Stavropoulou, Petros Bouras, and Dimitris Azorakos. Their music fuses a cabaret ambience with elements of EDM and synth rock genres. StarWound has been on tour in the US in collaboration with prominent poets from various universities. The goal is to provide musical accompaniment to original poetic compositions provided by each of the collaborating institutions and to present these songs in a multifaceted and multi-institutional concert program based on the thematic concept of “Interiors.”The first tour of “Interiors” included five US universities in four different States of the Southeast in October 2023. More specifically, StarWound performed in UWF (FL), GSU and Berry College (GA), MUW (MS) and Miles College (AL) and they collaborated with professors/poets like Sandra Meek, Kendall Dunkelberg and Jonathan Fink. On their latest tour, they performed in six cities in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa, working with poems from professors and poets Amy Ash, Carmella Braninger, Brenda Cardenas, Chris Forhan, Jennifer Moore and Nynke Passi. At the heart of the INTERIORS tours is an acknowledgment of our communal interior spaces and isolation during the recent pandemic years and a vision of fostering intercultural connection through song and poetry.Since its debut, StarWound has performed in various Festivals including the following: Eurosonic (Netherlands), CLAE Festival (Luxembourg), Colora (Belgium), Culturescapes (Switzerland), "River Party” and “Aisxyleia” (Greece). In addition, the group has appeared in many cities in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, North Macedonia and Luxembourg, and has given concerts at important music venues such as the “Sounds Jazz Club”, “Jazzcafe Dizzy”, “Jamboree” and “Blues-Sphere”.Many of StarWound’s songs have been featured on various major FM radio stations in Greece, and elsewhere in Europe, including: “Pepper Radio” (Greece), “World Radio” (Switzerland) “Ara City” (Luxembourg) and “Alma Radio” (Belgium). StarWound was ranked among the top 150 bands at the "YourBand" contest sponsored by the National Greek Radio and Television Company (ERT).In 2018, the band released its 2nd studio album, “So Wrong,” in collaboration with the internationally renowed mezzo-soprano, Alexandra Gravas. This album included eight new songs.In 2021, StarWound released their latest single, “Rose,” which received significant airplay on the radio. One month later, they collaborated with the Ballet of the Greek National Opera in “Dancing Cloud”, a video inspired by the sudden loss of the Company’s principal dancer, Sasha Neskov. In October 2023, they made their first tour in the USA, performing their project ‘Interiors’ and in January 2024, StarWound released its third album under the title “What do you see?”, which was produced by Ted Gaier and the first single ‘Insane’, was the reason for their return on the major radio stations in Greece.Below bios of a few of the poets who participated in INTERIORS:Amy Ash is the author of The Open Mouth of the Vase, winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award and Etchings Press Whirling Prize, and co-editor of Imaginative Teaching through Creative Writing. Her poems, prose, and collaborative work have been published in various journals and anthologies, including Rogue Agent, River Heron Review, SWWIM, The Journal, Remington Review, and I-70 Review, and Erase the Patriarchy: An Anthology of Erasure Poetry. She is Professor of English at Indiana State University.Dr. Carmella J. Braniger’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sycamore Review; MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry; Modern English Tanka; Altas Poetica: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka; Ribbons; Chrysanthemums; red lights; Magnapoet; and Eucalypt. Her chapbook, No One May Follow, was published by Pudding House Publications in 2009. More recently, her research and artistic achievement energies have focused on Brill|Sense’s Critical Storytelling series, which provides a platform for marginalized voices to tell stories about and advocate equal access and opportunity for excluded identities. Contributing to this venture has allowed her to integrate issues of diversity and inclusivity into her scholarly efforts. She recently served as the Distinguished Warren F. Hardy Professor of English during which she spent two years researching narrative testimony and poetry of witness as genres for processing and sharing our traumatic pasts.Current Wisconsin Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas has authored Trace (Red Hen Press), winner of the 2023 Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry and silver winner of Foreword Review’s Indie Poetry Prize; Boomerang (Bilingual Press); and three chapbooks. She also co-edited Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest. Her poems and essays have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Best of the Net Anthology (2024) Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Braving the Body, Latinx Poetics: The Art of Poetry, and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Anthology, among others. In 2024, her poem “Para los Tin-Tun-Teros,” set to choral music by Daniel Afonso, was performed by the National Concert Chorus at Carnegie Hall. Cárdenas is Professor Emerita of English at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. You can find her at <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrendacardenas.net%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cnpassi%40miu.edu%7C6a93c0c092fb4aa1b94608ddd9e1543c%7C28fd0d9ae529413f88d57f33f67675ef%7C0%7C0%7C638906284026847055%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ZAo4aO7WaMGy0O%2BLEU1SrgyMQpMhYXgrz4cL3OjtkcI%3D&amp;reserved=0" title="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrendacardenas.net%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cnpassi%40miu.edu%7C6a93c0c092fb4aa1b94608ddd9e1543c%7C28fd0d9ae529413f88d57f33f67675ef%7C0%7C0%7C638906284026847055%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ZAo4aO7WaMGy0O%2BLEU1SrgyMQpMhYXgrz4cL3OjtkcI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">brendacardenas.net</a>.Kendall Dunkelberg directs the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing and the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. He is editor of Poetry South and has published four collections of poetry, Tree Fall with Birdsong, Barrier Island Suite, Time Capsules, and Landscapes and Architectures, as well as the creative writing textbook, A Writer’s Craft: Multi-genre Creative Writing. His poems have recently appeared in Delta Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, Birmingham Poetry Review, Juke Joint, River Mouth Review, Peauxdunque Review, and Salvation South, and he has poems featured in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology and Southern Voices: Fifty Contemporary Poets.Chris Forhan is a poet, memoirist, and essayist whose most recent book is A Mind Full of Music: Essays on Imagination and Popular Song. He is also the author of the memoir My Father Before Me as well as four books of poetry: the forthcoming The Ghost Won’t Go; Black Leapt In, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize; The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars, winner of the Morse Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award; and Forgive Us Our Happiness, winner of the Bakeless Prize. He has won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. He lives in Indianapolis, where he teaches at Butler University. For more: www.chrisforhan.com.Aikaterini Grigoriadou holds an M.A. in Anthropology and a B.M. from Georgia State University. From 2019 to 2024, she served as the Inaugural Research Fellow at the GSU’s Center for Hellenic Studies focusing on modern Greek folklore, music, poetry, and culture. Her work includes co-authoring the book, The Greek Lyricist and Composer: Akis Panou, publishing the poem, “Dream out of Reach” in Subterranean Histories: Constantine Cavafy and the Poetics of Memory, and collaborating with the musical trio StarWound, who set her poem “Sacred Shrine” to music. Currently, Aikaterini works as a Department Specialist in GSU’s Department of Anthropology.Jennifer Moore was born and raised in Seattle. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Easy Does It and The Veronica Maneuver, both from the University of Akron Press, and a chapbook of centos, Smaller Ghosts (Seven Kitchens Press). Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bennington Review, Ploughshares, Tupelo Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She is a professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University and lives in Bowling Green, Ohio.Nynke Salverda Passi is the director of MIU’s MFA program and co-chair of MIU’s English dept, plus the founder of the Soul Bone℠ Literary Center and Festival. She was born and raised in the Netherlands. Her work has been published in CALYX, Gulf Coast, Poetry Breakfast, Life &amp; Legends, and more. Her poetry has been anthologized in Pandemic Puzzle Pieces and River of Earth &amp; Sky (Blue Light Press), Carrying the Branch (Glass Lyre Press), and Oxygen: Parables of the Pandemic (River Paw Press). and more. She was a finalist in the Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize of The Missouri Review in both ‘14 and ‘22.

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