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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
Familiar Strangers: the Ghazals of Simin Bebahani
Iranian poet Simin Behbahani has written 10
collections of poetry, won several human rights awards, been nominated
for the Nobel Prize for Literature, and—most recently—been named MTVU’s
Poet Laureate. For most of her poetic career she has been known for
reinventing the ghazal in the Persian language. A look at her work and the ghazal tradition.
An investigation of Haiti’s poetic
traditions in Kreyòl and French; the work of Haitian-American poets;
oral and literary poetry; includes work by Felix Morisseau Leroy,
Frankétienne, Anthony Phelps, Michèle Voltaire Marcelin, and a new
translation of Georges Castera’s “Kreyòl Drum”.
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