A poet, writer, teacher, well worth a deep dive. www.instagram.com/p/DUe1SvekYc...

And here's the whole Open Letters Review... openlettersreview.com/posts/cyclop... #BookSky #authorinterview #book #memoir #memoirs #bookclub #booktok #currentlyreading #writing #writersky #kindlebooks #Bookstagram #Bookstodon #Bookreviews #BookSky #authorinterview #book #memoir #memoirs #bookclub

"...Schofield is no gauzy describer of Greek nature, its sounds and smells, the fresh vegetables and fruit that he eats, the look of light on the Aegean at different times of day. [He] takes pleasure in daily activities. He embraces physical challenges." --Open Letters Review

Many thanks to Book Glow for doing this Q & A with me on my latest book, FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR. #BookSky #authorinterview #book #memoir #memoirs #Bookstagram #Bookreviews #writers #writercommunity #reader #Greece bookglow.net/qa-with-don-...

Many thanks to Book Glow for doing this Q & A with me on my latest book, FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR. All comments and questions welcome. bookglow.net/qa-with-don-...

ENOUGH!!! www.instagram.com/reel/DT6eTBk...

And MtK Article (Last Page):

MtK Article (Page 2):

Many thanks to Eleni Theodoridou and the Thessaloniki newspaper Macedonia (MtK) for doing this lovely profile on me and my new book. Here's the article translated into English:

So glad to hear a poem from my friend and former colleague Becky Sakellariou (along with three other excellent poets). May 2026 be, for each of them, their best year ever! passagerbooks.com/new-years-ho...

For so many, writing in survival! www.instagram.com/reel/DTS5NjE...

An excerpt from my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE has just come out in BOOK GLOW. Enjoy! bookglow.net/read-an-exce...

A Visual Preview (slightly revised) of FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR by Don Schofield www.don-schofield.com #BookSky #authorinterview #book #memoir #memoirs #bookclub #booktok #currentlyreading #writing #writersky #writesky #kindlebooks #Bookstagram #bildungsroman #Greece #ebooks #Books

Good to see my memoir--FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE--found a comfy place for the holidays. Seasons greetings to all!

A braided memoir of resilience, self-discovery and the search for home. #Memoir #WriterSky #Bookstagram #MustRead #AllAuthor #ebooks #Books #AuthorSky #bildungsroman #Greece

A Visual Preview of FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR by Don Schofield www.don-schofield.com/greece

Out at last: FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR A story that intertwines past and present, weaving a turbulent childhood in 1950s California with an adult life shaped by solitude on the Cycladic islands of Greece Available at Open Books Press Amazon USA & UK

More from the Serres Festival

What a wonderful two days of poetry, music and dance at the Third International Serres Poetry Festival. Warm thanks to Tryantafillos Kotopoulos, Isidora Malama and the many others who put on the events at the spacious Kronio Theater and in the warm blue light of the Zinzirli Mosque.

Here's the November issue of Weekly Hubris (posting it again because I had trouble posting it earlier). Enjoy! weeklyhubris.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

I'm delighted to be participating tomorrow and Saturday in the 3rd International Poetry Festival of Serres, Greece. This year the festival is honoring the centenary of Mikis Theodorakis' birth.

Sure can relate to this.

He's gone, just as the Greece he knew is gone. But like bits of carbon from stars, something of both remains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eky...

Just out in Weekly Hubris, "Two Arrivals," an excerpt from my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE, due out in a few weeks from Open Books Press. weeklyhubris.com/two-arrivals/

Just out in Weekly Hubris, "Two Arrivals," and excerpt from my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE, due out in a few weeks from Open Books Press. weeklyhubris.com/two-arrivals/

A pleasure hearing Thanos Giannoudis, Martha Vasiliadi and Sofia Potari read and talk about Thanos’ translations of Four Poets on the Threshold of Modernism. And what a delight that they invited me—quite unexpectedly!—to read a couple in the original English. Thanks too Mythistoria Bookstore.

My Savior...

After...

My latest hospital adventure at Agio Louka (Thessaloniki): Before.

Many thanks to the Circle of Poetry and all the wonderful poets who read at this year's World Poetry Festival for an amazing four days of hope and dreams.

It's rare that commentary on an excellent poem (the second one here, though the first is a fine poem too) moves me as much as the poem itself. But here Alicia Stallings does it with grace: www.english.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...

How can any human being turn a blind eye to the kinds of atrocities this whistleblower--and others--are bringing to light? No amount of rationalization, of "What about X," can make what's happening in Gaze right now right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyNu...

Among the few "leaders" speaking out. So many more need to step up. www.politico.eu/article/gaza...

And here’s the link to the excerpt from TRO-KAY. Many thanks to Charlotte Slivka and the folks at Lit Mag. www.litmagazine.org/in-transit/

The Summer ’25 issue of Lit Magazine, published by the creative writing master’s program at NYC’s New School, is just out, which includes the first chapter of my micro-memoir TRO-KAY: A MOURNING JOURNAL. Enjoy! www.litmagazine.org/lit-40-summe...

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Those of you who like poetry rendered into music (even in other languages) might enjoy this evening of contemporary classical music by the contemporary Greek composer Georgos Zervos. Soprano Fani Antonelou first reads the three poems,

I was in Job Corps with him. While he hit the pushing bag all day, I studied warehousing. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

Many thanks to Todd Sullivan and Samjoko Magazine (in the Republic of Korea!) for publishing three poems from A Different Heaven. Great to see them! www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow

Many thanks to Todd Sullivan and Samjoko Magazine (in the Republic of Korea!) for publishing three poems from A Different Heaven. Great to see them! www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow

Wish I could be there...

The first issue of Weekly Hubris for 2025. Enjoy. weeklyhubris.com