Joy Manesiotis
poet editor teacher
Joy Manesiotis | poet editor teacher
Joy Manesiotis | poet editor teacher
Events and Performances
5 October 2023
A Short History of Anger: A Hybrid Work of Poetry & Theatre, talk back with audience
The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Columbus, Ohio
21 September 2023 | 7:00 pm
A Short History of Anger: A Hybrid Work of Poetry & Theatre, talk back with audience
St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine
Ground Zero, New York City
Free and Open to the Public
23 March 2023 | 4:30 pm
A Short History of Anger: A Hybrid Work of Poetry & Theatre, talk back with audience and reception
The Visiting Writers Series
University of Redlands
Redlands, California
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10 March 2023 | 5:00 pm
AWP offsite reading: with authors from Airlie Press, Chax Press, and Tinfish Press
The Cloud Room
1424 11th Avenue, Suite E 400
Seattle, Washington
For more information or
to book a staged reading:
A Short History of Anger
Used as a blueprint for state sponsored ethnic cleansing and forced migration, The Destruction of Smyrna, in 1922, is an event about which the world has remained strangely silent. A Short History of Anger takes as its source material The Destruction of Smyrna, in Asia Minor, and the resulting mandatory population exchange arranged by the Greek and Turkish governments.
Both a book-length poetic hybrid manuscript and a staged reading, A Short History of Anger is governed by its musical, ritualistic construction, drawing on elements of lament structure, used from ancient to modern Greece, and it attempts to excavate the legacy of genocide and displacement that has resonated through successive generations. Incorporating a combination of prose and poetry, essay and verse, persona and Chorus, A Short History of Anger is built with many voices, many layers and fractures, and employs a modern day Greek Chorus.
A staged reading of an excerpt from A Short History of Anger—with a Speaker and Chorus drawn from the local community—shown at universities and venues in the US and Europe has generated engaged, dynamic post-show conversations and responses.
READ ABOUT A Performance of A Short History of Anger at Vanderbilt University
