Stephanides gained much praise and good standing as a poet after the back-to-back publication of his poetry collections The Golden Face (1965) and The Cities of the Mind (1969).
סטפנידאס זכה להערכה רבה ואף למעמד כמשורר לאחר פרסום אוספי השירה שכתב – "The Golden Face" ‏(1965) ו-"The Cities of the Mind" ‏(1969).