Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Here are some pics from the four-day poetry festival in Nafpaktos, Greece last Fri thru Mon, an amazing event. First, Days 1/2... 010
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 20/09/20264-13-26 #Bookstagram, #Bookish, #ReadersOfInstagram, #BookCommunity, #Memoir, #Nonfiction, #HistoricalFiction, #MustRead, #AuthorsOfInstagram, #WritingCommunity, #NewRelease 040
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you’re free this Wednesday (11 am EST), drop in on “For Love of Memoir,” a well-known podcast dedicated to “raw, honest conversations with memoir authors.” That’s when the host Erin Swanson will interview me about FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR.<https://www.youtube.com/@forloveofmemoir> 122
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I am thoroughly delighted, and grateful to the folks at BookTrib for giving FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE such a splendid review. One of the best ones yet. booktrib.com/2026/09/14/f... #Bookstagram, #Bookish, #BookCommunity, #Memoir, #Nonfiction, #Greece, #VisitGreece, #TravelBlogger, #TravelStoriesbooktrib.comFinding Light in the Shadows of Memory | BookTrib.From the Cyclops Cave is a memoir written by Don Schofield where an American poet, long settled in Greece, rents a house on the island of Kýthnos that the locals call "the Cyclops Cave." Alone there f... 050
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Yet one more reason to give thanks aplenty to Elizabeth Boleman-Herring and the other folks at WEEKLY HUBRIS, this time for enabling me to gather all my “Homer” poems together in one place, ala The Phaeakians. weeklyhubris.com/drifting-tow... #Bookstagram, #Bookish, #BookCommunity 040
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Many thanks to David Havird for his incisive review of my FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE. Braiding on braiding. He too has a book well worth our attention: WEATHERING: POEMS AND RECOLLECTIONS (Mercer University Press, 2020). weeklyhubris.com/to-the-cyclo... #BookSky #memoir #Bookstagram #Bookreviewsweeklyhubris.comTo the Cyclops Cave: A Homecoming – Hubris 180
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The September/October issue of Weekly Hubris is out. A thousand thanks to Elizabeth Boleman-Herring and her team for featuring Homer, in various ways, in the first three articles, including two pieces on my work. My gratitude is of epic proportions. weeklyhubris.com?fbclid=IwY2x... #Bookstagramweeklyhubris.comHubris – Ludic, Literate & Longform Since 2009. 040
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 04/09/2026@iwic-book-features.bsky.social For those of you who missed yesterday's IWIC Author podcast interview with yours truly (I'm sure there's one or two of you out there 😜), here’s two YouTube links. Any and all comments are welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ6m... www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ6m...writersinspiringchange.comPodcast | iWICWe interview and promote authors and their books at the Author Shout-Out Podcast. 020
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Sorry, everyone, the time for my International Writers Inspiring Change Author Shout-Out Podcast tomorrow is 8 pm Greek time (1 pm EST). Not 7 Greek time. At least I got the podcast links right: www.writersinspiringchange.com/author-shout.... www.youtube.com/results?sear... Hope you catch it. 010
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Come join me Tuesday, September 1, 7 pm Greek time (Noon EST) for a lively video conversation about my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE on the International Writers Inspiring Change Author Shout-Out Podcast. www.writersinspiringchange.com/author-shout... www.youtube.com/results?sear...writersinspiringchange.comPodcast | iWICWe interview and promote authors and their books at the Author Shout-Out Podcast. 011
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 23/08/2026THE 14TH PAN-THESSALY POETRY FESTIVAL IN ATHENS Monday 8/24/2026, 19:30: Zatopek Book Café P. Tasldari 209, very close to the Kallithea Green Line station (το ηλεκτρικό). • Miriam Reyes (Spain) • Víctor Rodríguez Núñez (Cuba) Also poets from Poets Circle Supported by the Spanish Embassy in Greece 030
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 19/08/2026What a joy returning for three weeks this past July to the “Cyclops Cove.” What I call the bay on Kythnos from which sprang my memoir now that the cave—that primitive domicile I lived in in the ‘90s—is no longer there. Its spirit, though, like the island’s drystone walls, will always be there. 052
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026She's one of my all-time favorite poets. Sorely missed! 110
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Just back from Crete where I spent several days in Matala (think Joni Mitchell's "Blue") with my dear friends and fellow poets Michael and Mihaela, and took a quick jaunt to Rethymno to visit another longtime friend (and former ULV colleague) Chris Parnassus and some of her good friends. 040
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Today’s Odyssey poem (again in two parts), one of mine, is a persona poem in the voice of Eidothea, the daughter of that well-known shape-shifting soothsayer Proteus... 071
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Today’s “Odyssey” poem is “The King of Asini” is by the Greek Nobel poet George Seferis... 051
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 29/07/2026So here’s another “Odyssey” poem, one of my own, a sonnet of sorts in the voice of Cassandra... 020
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Today’s “Odyssey” poem is one by Louise Glück, a short one in the voice of Odysseus’ son... TELEMACHUS’ DETACHMENT When I was a child looking at my parent’s lives, you know what I thought? I thought Heartbreaking. Now I think heartbreaking, but also insane. Also very funny. From MEADOWLANDS 041
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Again riding the wake of Nolan’s ODYSSEY, a poem riffing off the return of that “[Complicated] Man of Many Ways”... 031
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 19/07/2026suddenly, on this night of return, turned to black ash fluttering against the low sky of her final endurance. 040
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 19/07/2026the suitors sprawled on the floor, as if she were seeing her own slaughtered desires. Welcome, she said, her voice distant, strange. In the corner her loom filled the ceiling with a lattice of shadows, and all the birds she’d ever woven with bright red threads amid green foliage ... 011
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 19/07/2026she looked for an excuse, a little more time to not answer, not give anything away. Was it for him she’d lost twenty years, twenty years of waiting and dreaming for this wretched man, this blood-drenched white-beard? Speechless, she collapsed into a chair, then slowly surveyed ... 010
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 19/07/2026It wasn’t that she didn’t recognize him there in the light of the fireplace, it wasn’t the beggar’s rags, the disguise—no, there were clear signs: the scar on his knee, his muscular build, the cunning in his eye. Pressing her back against the wall, frightened,... 010
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 19/07/2026With all the Who, Why and Wherefore surrounding Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY, I thought I’d join in by posting a few of my own poems alluding in one way or another to my favorite epic. But first, my translation of a well-known Yiannis Ritsos poem PENELOPE’S DESPAIR... 010
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 17/07/2026#BookSky #book #memoir #memoirs #bookclub #booktok #writing #writersky #Bookstagram #Bookstodon #Bookreviews #MustRead #AllAuthor #Books #AuthorSky #writers #writercommunity #reader #literary #NewPages.com #bildungsroman #WritingCommunity #Writer #writerscommunity #reading #readingcommunity 0130
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Many thanks to the New York Book Festival curating committee for awarding FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE Honorable Mention in this year’s Memoir category. 130
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Yesterday evening's book launch continued... fb.watch/HWAu4ejqH0/fb.watch 010
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Immense grattitude to Moschoula and Eleni Biza for hosting the launch of my new book at Anayennisi Bookstore, in Parakia, Paros. To Dolores Krok and Hava Kohl-Riggs for their generous words of introduction. And to the audience for its insightful questions at the end. fb.watch/HWyVh3Wremfb.watch 110
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Those of you who might be on Paros today, come to Parikia this evening, 8 pm, to the Anagenisi Bookstore, for a convivial presentation on childhood, living in Greece and my new book, FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE. Local writers Dolores Krok and Hava Kohl-Riggs will also be talking. 010
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 19/06/2026#BookSky #book #memoir #memoirs #bookclub #booktok #writing #writersky #Bookstagram #Bookstodon #Bookreviews #MustRead #AllAuthor #Books #AuthorSky #writers #writercommunity #reader #literary #NewPages.com #bildungsroman #WritingCommunity #Writer #writerscommunity #reading #readingcommunity 0110
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Warm thanks to the San Francisco Book Festival curating committee for awarding FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE Honorable Mention in this year’s Memoir category. Their recognition feels especially gratifying since part of my book is set in the City, where I lived in my mid-teens (corner of Fulton and Steiner). 130
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Here we are yesterday evening, Theodore Poulis and I, at Meteoritis Bookstore in Kypseli. On a lovely June evening, we’re reading from our recent books and talking about myth and memory, realism and imagination, among the plane trees and passersby of Fokionos Negri. Thank you, Benoit. 000
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Congratulations to Niki Chalkiadaki for the new--second--edition of *little cannibals*. Up neχt--an English translation!!! Συγχαρητήρια στη Νίκη Χαλκιαδάκη για τη νέα — δεύτερη — έκδοση του *little cannibals*. Ακολουθεί… μια αγγλική μετάφραση!!! www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2...facebook.comFacebook 000
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 12/06/2026#BookSky #authorinterview #memoir #bookclub #writing #writersky #kindlebooks #Bookstagram #Bookstodon #ebooks #AuthorSky #writers #writercommunity #Wanderlust #readersky #literary #bildungsroman #Greece #readingcommunity 0130
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 12/06/2026If you have the good fortune of being on or near the island of Paros in late June, join us on the evening of the 22nd for the Cycladic launch of my latest book, FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR. 8 pm, at the Renaissance (International) Bookstore in Parikia. It’ll be great to see you there. 240
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 10/06/2026#Bookstagram, #Bookish, #ReadersOfInstagram, #BookCommunity, #Memoir, #Nonfiction, #HistoricalFiction, #MustRead, #AuthorsOfInstagram, #WritingCommunity, #NewRelease 193
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A gentle reminder that Theodoros Poulis and I will be reading at Meteoritis Bookstore (Fokinos Negri 68, Kypseli) next Tuesday, the 16th, at 7 pm. He’ll be reading from his novel, BEYOND THE LIZARD SKIN, and I from my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE. We look forward to seeing you there. 131
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 08/06/2026“Stories Around the Fire”: In the twilight hours last Saturday, on the Hill of the Nymphs, in the Garden of the Athens Observatory, a performance piece by poets from @frmkmagazine... Just describing it here brings back the wonder of that performance, that evening, that place... 010
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Meteoritis Bookshop, Fokinos Negri 68, Kypseli. June 16, 7 pm. 140
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Yet another event! This one at Meteoritis Bookstore in Kypseli, June 16, 7 pm. I'll be presenting along with the young, talented writer Theodore Poulis. Two books, two different ways of looking at Self, Myth & Memory. Come join us! fb.me/e/87avfT1xifb.me 140
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I want to thank Alice, Christina and the other good people at TEO Books & Coffee for hosting last evening’s presentation HOW TO TAME A MEMOIR. We had a lively, and at times very introspective, discussion about writing autobiographies, their rewards and struggles. 370
