Nicholas Samaras: Attentiveness and the Sacred

During a visit to St. Vladimir’s Seminary.

Nicholas Samaras is from Patmos, Greece (the “Island of the Apocalypse”). At the time of the Greek Junta military dictatorship he was brought in exile to be raised further in America. He’s lived in Greece, England, Wales, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Yugoslavia, Jerusalem, thirteen states in America, and he writes from a place of permanent exile. His first book, Hands of the Saddlemaker, won The Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His current book is American Psalm, World Psalm (Ashland Poetry Press, 2014). He is completing a new manuscript of poetry and a memoir of his childhood years lived underground.

Fr. Nicholas participated in our 2018 second symposium on “Rethinking Sacred Arts,” and has a chapter in our forthcoming book of the same name.