The Poetry Symposium is held every year during the beginning of July. It was first held in 1981 by the shield of the University of Patras

University of Patras

University of Patras is a university established in 1964 in Patras, Greece. Initially housed in the city centre, the university's campus is now located in the adjacent municipality of Rio...

. Every year, the sayings of the Poetry Symposium are different.

Hundreds of journalists had presented in literary works, critics and poems which journaizes the Act Of The Poetry Symposium which is achieved every year.

The Poetry Symposium are Administrated by the Organized Committee. In 2007, its members of the Organized Committee are:

• Stavros Koumpias
• Sokratis Skartsis
  Sokratis Skartsis
  Sokratis Skartsis is a Greek poet and writer, as well as a professor in the University of Patras. He is also a founding member of the University of Patras Poetry Symposium. He has published 150 books, including poetry, literature studies, etc.-Works:...
  
  , poet
• Lydia Stefanou, poetess, translator
• Alexis Lykourgiotis, professor of the University of Patras
• Xenofon Verykios
  Xenofon Verykios
  Xenofon Verykios is a Greek poet, and a professor in chemical mechanics at the University of Patras.The professor is the member of the Administrative Committee of TEI of the Ionian Islands and benefactor, he does reports and has benefits on an innovator at the production of electrical energy from...
  
  , poet, professor of the University of patas
• Dimitris Katsaganis, poet, critic
• Kostas Kremmydas, poet, editor of the periodical Mandragoras (Μανδραγόρας)?
• Dimitris Charitos, poet, cimenatographer critic
• Sotiris Varnavas, poet, professor of the University of Patras
• Kostas Kapelas, Journalist Of The Polyedro Bookstore
• Giorgos Kentrotis, poet, translator, professor of the Ionian University
  Ionian University
  The Ionian University is a university located in the city of Corfu, Greece. It was established in 1984 by the Greek government under the Prime Ministership of Andreas Papandreou, in recognition of Corfu's contribution to Education in Greece as the seat of the first University of Greece, the Ionian...
  
  
• Savvas Mihail, critic
• Thanasis Nakas, professor of the University of Patras
  University of Patras
  University of Patras is a university established in 1964 in Patras, Greece. Initially housed in the city centre, the university's campus is now located in the adjacent municipality of Rio...
  
  
• Xeni Skartsi, poeterr

• Honorary Members are:
  • Michais G. Meraklis, critic, former professor of the University of Athens
  • Andreas Belezinis, philologist, critic

Historic Registered Symposia And Topics

• July 3 - 5, 1981 - I Symposium: The First Postwar Generation. The Poetry In Life And In - Poetry And Technology. Theory And Language Of Poetry
• July 2 - 4, 1982 - II Symposium: Critics And Poems
• July 1 - 7, 1983 - III Symposium: Dedication to Constantine Cavafy
• July 6 - 8, 1984 - IV Symposium: Dedication to Folk Music
• July 5 - 7, 1985 - V Symposium: Commons And Poetry
• July 4 - 6, 1986 - VI Symposium: Modern Greek Postwar Poetry (1945-1985)
• July 3 - 5, 1987 - VII Symposium: Poetry For Children
• July 1 - 3, 1988 - VIII Symposium: Poetry And Prose Writing
• July 7 - 9, 1989 - IX Symposium: Kostis Palamas
  Kostis Palamas
  Kostis Palamas was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School along with Georgios Drosinis, Nikos Kampas, Ioanis Polemis.-Biography:Born in Patras, he...
  
  : His Timeline And Our Timeline
• July 6 - 8, 1990 - X Symposium: Dionysios Solomos
  Dionysios Solomos
  Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zakynthos. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty , of which the first two stanzas, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros, became the Greek national anthem in 1865...
  
  
• July 5 - 7, 1991 - XI Smposium: Poetic Anthologies
• July 3 - 5, 1992 - XII Symposium: Andreas Kalvos
  Andreas Kalvos
  Andreas Kalvos was a contemporary of Dionysios Solomos and one of the greatest Greek writers of the 19th century. Paradoxically enough, no known portrait of his survives today.-Biography:...
  
  
• July 2 - 4, 1993 - XIII Symposium: Nationality And Poetry
• July 1 - 3, 1994 - XIV Symposium: Andreas Empeirikos, Yiannis Ritsos
  Yiannis Ritsos
  Yiannis Ritsos was a Greek poet and left-wing activist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II.-Early life:...
  
  , Periodicals
• July 7 - 9. 1995 - XV Symposium: Poetry And Music
• July 5 - 7, 1996 - XVI Symposium: Angelos Sikelianos
  Angelos Sikelianos
  Angelos Sikelianos was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. He wrote on national history, religious symbolism, and universal harmony in poems such as The Light-Shadowed, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance...
  
  
• July 4 - 6, 1997 - XVII Symposium: Ancient Greek Poem And The Time
• July 3 - 5, 1998 - XVIII Symposium: Poetry And Language
• July 2 - 4, 1999 - XIX Symposium: The Stream And Synchronized Poetry
• July 7 - 9, 2000 - XX Symposium: The Poetry In Our Lives
• July 6 - 8, 2001 - XXI Symposium: Our Lost Poets
• July 5 - 7, 2002 - XXII Symposium: These Poems We Love
• July 4 - 6, 2003 - XXIII Symposium: The Translations Of Poetry
• July 2 - 4, 2004 - XXIV Symposium: The Poetry Of Anthem
• July 1 - 3, 2005 - XXV Symposium: 25 Years Of Symposium - 25 Years Of Poetry.
• June 29 - July 2, 2006 - XXVI Symposiym: Poetry And Romance. (In organized committee of 2006, it was presented by Christos Chatzitheodorou, Deanship of the University of Patras)
• 2007 - XXVII Symposium: Why Poetry