On Sunday, August 30 at 6pm, celebrate Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) with Virginia's new Poet Laureate Luisa A. Igloria, writers Joanna Eleftheriou, Amanda Galvan Huynh, Lorrie Jean-Louis, Fabienne Kanor, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Sofia Starnes; scholars Peter Schulman and Afef Benessaieh; and yours truly. We'll explore the work of fabulous women writers outside the Anglophone world and hear some new translations! Online at the Muse Writers Center.
Reinventing Armenia: Poetry after the Genocide The years from 1915 to 1921 were the turning point in modern Armenian history, characterized by displacement and emigration. This brief selection of poems by iconic poets Nigoghos Sarafian, Paruyr Sevak, and Zahrad, along with an interview with the Armenian Poetry Project’s Director Lola Koundakjian, offers a sampling of the richness of post-genocide writing in this Year of the Armenian Book.