On Saturday, March 29 at 12pm, please join Queens Writers Lab, including yours truly, for an AWP offisite reading of city and environmentally-themed poetry and prose in honor of Los Angeles at Arts District Brewing near downtown LA. Hope to see you there!
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.