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| July 5 2007: Dimitris P. Kraniotis | |
Dimitris P. Kraniotis is an award-winning Greek poet. He was born in 15 July 1966 in Stomio, a coastal town in central Greece. He studied at the Medical School in Thessaloniki. He lives and works as a medical doctor specialized pathologist in Larissa, Greece. He is Founder and President of World Poets Society (W.P.S.), the Editor and Director of the online poetic libraries “Greek Poet”, “International Poet” and “Hellenic Words”, the Editorial Director of the Greek medical magazine “Hippocrates”, President of the Economic and Social Council of the Prefecture of Larissa, a Member of the Editorial Board of the Greek literary magazine “Graphi” and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Larissa Medical Association and Larissa Medical Society. He is a Member of several organizations including the Hellenic Literary Society, International Society of Greek Writers, Larissa Writers and Poets Society (former Vice-President and President), Greek Society of Medical Writers, World Academy of Arts and Culture (WAAC), World Congress of Poets (WCP), United Poets Laureate International (UPLI), International Writers and Artists Association (IWA), Union Mondiale des Ecrivains Medecins (UMEM), International Society of Poets (ISP), Poetry Society of America (PSA), The Academy of American Poets, Poetas del Mundo (Chile) and Bilingual Poets and Writers for Peace (Argentina). Also he is 2007 Poetry Ambassador (by the National Poetry Month Committee, USA) and Love Ambassador (by The Love Foundation Inc., USA).
Four of his poetic collections have been published: “Traces” (poems in Greek), Larissa, Greece 1985, “Clay Faces” (poems in Greek), Larissa, Greece, 1992 , “Fictitious Line” (poems in Greek and translated into English and French), Larissa, Greece 2005 and "Dunes" (selected poems translated into French and Romanian), Bucharest, Romania 2007. Central theme in his poetry is contemporary man, his impasse, his worries, his fears, his hopes and dreams. His poems have been translated into English, French, Romanian, Dutch and Portuguese. He has won a number of international literary awards for his poetry (in Greece, USA, UK and France), which has been published in many countries around the World (USA, UK, India, Algeria, China, Korea, Brazil, France, Australia, Canada, Germany, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, Nigeria, Argentina, Taiwan, El Salvador & Turkey). He is featured in several encyclopedias (the online encyclopedia “Wikipedia” in 35 languages, the online Greek encyclopedia “Live Pedia”, the “Big Encyclopaedia of New Greek Literature of Haris Patsis” and the “Who is Who in Greece”).
|  Poet and Medical Doctor President of World Poets Society (W.P.S.) http://www.dimitriskraniotis.com |
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featured poems Rules and visions Life counts the rules; the sunset, their exceptions. Rain drinks up the centuries; spring, our dreams. The eagle sees the sunrays and youth, the visions. by Dimitris P. Kraniotis Denials A roar of cars seals the dawn with short-cut answers, with unyielding denials that are repeated explicitly every sunset. by Dimitris P. Kraniotis One-word garments Waves of circumflexes storms of adverbs, windmills of verbs, shells of signs of ellipsis, on the island of poems of soul, of mind, of thought, one-word garments you wear to endure! by Dimitris P. Kraniotis |
