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Armenian Library & Museum of America
65 Main St., Watertown, MA. 02472
Tel: 617-926-2562
Web: http://www.almainc.org/
Email: [email protected]
Inheriting the Light
In Conversation
with Diana Der Hovanessian and Nancy Kricorian
DATE AND TIME
Saturday, Oct. 5
7:00PM
LOCATION
ALMA
Contemporary Art Gallery
3rd Floor
ADMISSION
donation appreciated
Refreshments following program
Diana Der Hovanessian and Nancy Kricorian will engage in a dialogue
about how family and communal history have inspired and shaped their
writings. Emerging from a dark history, they have forged bodies of
work that are committed to bearing witness to past wrongs but also to
celebrating the enormous resiliency, humor and creativity of the human
spirit.
Diana Der Hovanessian has written more than 25 books of poetry and
translations and contributed to many journals, anthologies and
reviews. The recipient of numerous awards and twice a Fulbright
professor of American Poetry, she is a visiting poet and guest
lecturer at various universities in the U.S. and abroad. Der
Hovanessian is currently the president of the New England Poetry Club.
Nancy Kricorian, who grew up in Watertown, Mass., is the author of
Zabelle (1998), Dreams of Bread and Fire (2003), and All the Light
There Was (2013). In addition to writing, Kricorian has taught at
Yale, Rutgers, Barnard and Queens Colleges and worked as a literary
scout for foreign publishers. Since 2003 she has been on the staff of
CODEPINK Women for Peace. She lives in New York City.
From: Baghdasarian
Armenian Library & Museum of America
65 Main St., Watertown, MA. 02472
Tel: 617-926-2562
Web: http://www.almainc.org/
Email: [email protected]
Inheriting the Light
In Conversation
with Diana Der Hovanessian and Nancy Kricorian
DATE AND TIME
Saturday, Oct. 5
7:00PM
LOCATION
ALMA
Contemporary Art Gallery
3rd Floor
ADMISSION
donation appreciated
Refreshments following program
Diana Der Hovanessian and Nancy Kricorian will engage in a dialogue
about how family and communal history have inspired and shaped their
writings. Emerging from a dark history, they have forged bodies of
work that are committed to bearing witness to past wrongs but also to
celebrating the enormous resiliency, humor and creativity of the human
spirit.
Diana Der Hovanessian has written more than 25 books of poetry and
translations and contributed to many journals, anthologies and
reviews. The recipient of numerous awards and twice a Fulbright
professor of American Poetry, she is a visiting poet and guest
lecturer at various universities in the U.S. and abroad. Der
Hovanessian is currently the president of the New England Poetry Club.
Nancy Kricorian, who grew up in Watertown, Mass., is the author of
Zabelle (1998), Dreams of Bread and Fire (2003), and All the Light
There Was (2013). In addition to writing, Kricorian has taught at
Yale, Rutgers, Barnard and Queens Colleges and worked as a literary
scout for foreign publishers. Since 2003 she has been on the staff of
CODEPINK Women for Peace. She lives in New York City.
From: Baghdasarian