Constantine Cavafy may not be a household name, but the Greek poet was admired by English novelist E.M. Forster, and Jacqueline Kennedy loved his poetry so much that it was read at her funeral ...

The great, early-twentieth-century Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy much preferred writing about a culture’s end-times rather than all of the times that came before. This was largely because he ...

The building where the acclaimed Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy lived in Alexandria, Egypt, has been lovingly restored and opened to the public. The house in Alexandria, Egypt that was once home to ...

Constantine Cavafy may not be a household name, but the Greek poet was admired by English novelist E.M. Forster, and Jacqueline Kennedy loved his poetry so much that it was read at her funeral ...

World-renowned poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), a meticulous artist who left behind 154 carefully composed poems, seems to have readied the world, and many of the historical characters who appear ...

In the festival “Archive of Desire,” artists and musicians thoughtfully engage with the writing of Constantine P. Cavafy, a self-assessed “ultramodern poet.” ...

For Cavafy, it was home. Living outside the young Greek state among Egyptians, Greeks and Jews, he could remain committed to a fading, idealized Hellenism free from the crude taint of nationalism ...

C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is the most renowned and far-reaching poet of modern Greece. Inspired by Greece's long and cosmopolitan history, especially in connection with his native city of Alexandria, ...

Yet, Cavafy is an unlikely symbol of Greek culture and Christianity in Egypt. “Where could I live better?” he wrote about his modest building, which for a time also hosted a bordello.

A documentary from the Onassis Foundation that surveys the influence of poet C. P. Cavafy. To mark the 160th anniversary of C. P. Cavafy’s birth, the Onassis Foundation hosted a week-long festival in ...