ARMENIAN POETRY PROJECT

We are thrilled to share that the issue is out, containing a portfolio of contemporary Armenian poets from around the world. We would love t...

Gyumri, Armenia, 12/18/10 1. Over brandy at breakfast we were talking about the Hellenic temple at the edge of the canyon and the sun gods w...

Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Readings Spring 2021 virtual reading: Award-Winning Poet Peter Balakian with BU Alumna Susan Barba The Robert ...

Dear friends and colleagues, On September 27th, Azerbaijan, directly aided by Turkey, launched a massive assault on Nagorno Karabakh, an eth...

The day comes in strips of yellow glass over trees. When I tell you the day is a poem I’m only talking to you and only the sky is listen...

For Michael Coyle and Donna Frieze 1 You said anyone could walk in with a pack of explosives as we passed through the crowds of touris...

Click the link to hear Peter Balakian reading.

Join us to honor PETER BALAKIAN June 27, 2016 at 7PM John Pashalian Hall Saint Illuminator Cathedral 221 East 27th Stre...

The groove in black vinyl got deeper What was that light? A migrant I slid into a scat, and in the purple silk and the Canoe there...

Now I undo the loops of yarn I rested my head on. Under each flower a tufted pile loosens. I feel the wool give way as if six c...

Between arid houses and crooked streets a shadow could be your wife or a corpse and a mule’s hooves sounded like Stalin’s fat finge...

Into a basalt cavern I wandered, where the moon  slid like a water snake in white skin  through the gullies to the blonde...

The slips of the day- lilies come off. The wind blows in from Vermont, blows the silk kimonos off the delphiniums, blows the satin c...

Earlier this year, Balakian visited the Cornell English Department's Writers At Cornell reading series.  Click this link to view the...

Balakian to read at  Hunter College  Distinguished Writer Series, Wednesday, March 16, 7:30 pm At Hunter College  on March 16, 7:30 PM  Bal...

Click to hear Peter Balakian reading his poem. -- from "A-Train/Ziggurat/Elegy" Who is the other who floats between wh...

Ziggurat, published by the   University of Chicago Press   on September 11, 2010 .     “With characteristic originality, Balakian finds...

Shirts hang in the glass showcase behind the gold French Cleaners, when I open the door, naphthalene rises into the no-legs. Delphiniums are...

Click here to hear the audio clip August Diary read by Lola Koundakjian. 8/1 From here groomed fields and clumps of trees, a silo of corrug...

Click here to hear Peter Balakian's Parts of Peonies read by Lola Koundakjian. It rained so much in June some grew to look like stuffed...