What is the ground we stand on, what keeps us awake at night, what gets us up early in the morning? What does "generation" mean, and what does "transition" mean? And how can these things sometimes rest upon words and other times flee from them?
Surely, when we talk about ourselves through our writing, we’re also speaking about our generation. But the time has come to speak directly about our generation—the millennial generation, the generation of transition. The generation that knows both cassette tapes on the radio and Spotify, floppy disks and Google Drive. The generation that knows and forgets so much, that drinks beer with the same ease with which everything can suddenly become difficult. A generation you could accuse of a thousand things, like writing poetry and sexting at the same time. This generation.
This project is part of the subthemes Re-imagining identity through poetry, Healing Narratives - Poetry, Mental Health and Collective Trauma, and Cultural Resilience - Literature as a force for social justice.
Author
στίξη
στίξη is a literary collective located in Athens, aiming, through art, to reinvent and redefine the characteristics of the common ground on which it is inspired to create. It consists of Nikos Staikoulis, Ismini Katsavarou, Giorgos Simianakis and Eleni Georgiou. Apart from their online presence, they organize their own projects and events, collaborate with other groups and bands and from 2021 they print and release their own books independently.
