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Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 01, 2022

Rescheduled: Book launch and reading


 

Book Release and Poetry Reading with book signing and reception in-person 

for History of Forgetfulness by Shahé Mankerian

(Fly on the Wall Press, 2021)


Thursday, March 10th, 2022 at 7:00pm ET

Guild Hall | Armenian Diocese

630 2nd Ave, New York, NY



PLEASE NOTE: All attendees must provide proof of COVID vaccination

Readings by the author and NY area writers and scholars:
Nancy Agabian, Christopher Atamian,
Alina Gregorian, Alan Semerdjian,
Alina Gharabegian & Lola Koundakjian

Shahé Mankerian releases his critically-acclaimed debut collection, taking readers back to 1975 Beirut, where an un-civil war is brewing. 
Mankerian asks, “Who said war didn’t love / the children?” setting the tone for a darkly humorous collection in which memories of love, religion and childhood are entangled amongst street snipers and the confusion of misguided bombings.



For more information contact Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center
Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern)
630 2nd Avenue | New York, NY 10016-4885
zohrabcenter@armeniandiocese.org
www.zohrabcenter.org

Wednesday, February 09, 2022

World Poetry Day 2022 Triangulation Project to include Armenian poets and musicians

























SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Mar 5
UK: Ian Griffiths Ivor Murrell Alex Davis; musician TBA
COLOMBIA/SA: Carolina Zamudio Tallulah Flores Prieto Manuel Iris ; musician Medina
NYC: Joe Roarty Robert Gibbons Dorothy Cantwell ; musician Thomas Vincent Santoriello
comperes Ian Griffiths , Maria María Del Castillo Sucerquia
fb livestream by Walt Whitman Birthplace

Mar 6
BULGARIA; Anton Baev Elka Dimitrova ; Ivan Hristo (poet / musician)
GEORGIA: Shota Iatashvili Paata Shamugia; musician Erekle Deisadze
NYC Billy Cancel Patricia Carragon Chatham Grey; musician Ptr Kozlowski
comperes Anton Baev , Shota Iatashvili
fb livestream by Great Weather for Media

Mar 12
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY: Octavio Quintanilla Edward Vidaurreire’ne lara silva; musician Ray Perez
KOREA: Hack Hee Kang Park Dukkyu Hanyong Jeong , musician Young Ok Hwang
NYC: Mike Jurkovic Kofi Kofi Fosu Forson Marc Ellot Marc Eliot Stein ; musician Alan Semerdjian
comperes Octavio Quintanilla , Tanya Ko Hong
fb livestream by Calling All Poets

Mar 13
PIACENZA: Antje Stehn Viviana Fiorentino Mauro Ferrari; musician Betty Gilmore and Il principio attivo (plus Sabrina De Canio , Piccolo Museo della Poesia Chiesa di San Cristoforo, Piacenza)
ARMENIA: Lola Koundakjian Nora Nadjarian Arthur Kayzakian; musician Aram Bajakian
NYC: Don Krieger Karen Neuberg Francine Witte ; musician Tom Gould ( Bossa Nova Beatniks)
comperes: Antje Stehn , Lola Koundakjian
fb livestream by Cultivating Voices Live Poetry

Mar 19
ROME: Lucilla Trapazzo Mara Venuto Alessandra Corbetta; musician Ermanno Dodaro
BUCHAREST: Mircea Dan Duta Shurouk Hammoud (SY) Masud Uzaman (BD); musician TBD
NYC: Matthew Hupert Anthony Policano Ngoma Hill ; musician Rick Eckerle
comperes Lucilla Trapazzo , Mircea Dan Duta
fb livestream by NeuroNautic Institute

Mar 20
BOLTON: Melanie Neads Emily Cook Dr Ben Wilkinson; musician Nat Clare
CHENNAI: Srilata Krishnan Poornima Laxmeshwar Hema Praveen; musician The Coconut Milk Project
NYC: Zev Torres Howie Faerstein Cindy Hochman; musician Didi Champagne
comperes Dave Morgan , Sriram Gokul (Sriramgokul Chinnasamy)
fb livestream by Live from Worktown

Saturday, January 15, 2022

Hamazkayin Canada presents a reading

HAMAZKAYIN Canada presents

a bilingual reading of Daniel Varoujan's 


SONG OF THE BREAD

with a new translation by Tatul Sonentz-Papazian

SUNDAY, November 21, 2021 at 2:00PM EST


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Wednesday, December 01, 2021

Shahé Mankerian’s debut poetry collection History of Forgetfulness book launch [postponed]

DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL, the event is postponed. WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED.

Please join us for the Book Release & Poetry Reading of Shahé Mankerian’s debut poetry collection History of Forgetfulness with readings by NY area writers/intellectuals Nancy Agabian, Christopher Atamian, Alina Gregorian, Alan Semerdjian, Alina Gharabegian, & Lola Koundakjian

The Zohrab Center was established through the generous gift of Mrs. Dolores Zohrab Liebmann in memory of her parents, and dedicated on November 8, 1987 in the presence of His Holiness Vasken I (†1994), Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians;  and His Eminence Archbishop Torkom Manoogian (†2012), Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America. Liebmann’s father, Krikor Zohrab 1861-1915), was a renowned author, jurist, humanitarian and community activist in Constantinople, who was among the first Armenian intellectuals killed in the 1915 Genocide.



December 2, 2021  7:00pm ET 

at Zohrab Center

630 Second Avenue

New York, NY 10016-4885




Saturday, September 25, 2021

Emerging writers showcase today

 


Sunday, May 09, 2021

The Zephyr poets at Litfest Pasadena 2021

Shahé Mankerian, Arminé Iknadossian and Alene Terzian-Zeitournian, the Zephyr Poets, will be appearing at LITFEST PASADENA 2021, Saturday and Sunday, May 15 and 16, 2021, Noon to 6:00 p.m.


LitFest Pasadena will livestream (12) 50-minute panel discussions as well as 10-minute interludes between each panel with pre-recorded readings and short films.

LitFest Pasadena 2021 programming will be accessible for FREE.

For more details, visit  http://litfestpasadena.org





Thursday, May 06, 2021

15th anniversary reading is now available on Youtube.com

Many thanks to the Armenian Institute in London for recording the event and uploading it to youtube.com.

The readers are:

Hratch Tchilingirian, Susan Pattie, Tina Chakarian, Theo Maarten van Lint, Vazken Davidian, Tatevik Ayvazyan, Lola Koundakjian, Gagik Stepan-Sarkissian, Olivia Katrandjian, Shahé Mankerian, Shakeh Major Tchilingirian, Arthur Kayzakian and Nancy Agabian

Friday, April 09, 2021

Save the Date for a worldwide reading on May 2, 2021

On Sunday, May 2, 2021, there will be a worldwide reading to help celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Armenian Poetry Project. 

Details to follow.


Best regards, 


Lola Koundakjian
Curator and Director, The Armenian Poetry Project

Sunday, March 14, 2021

International Armenian Literary Alliance Launch event on March 21, 2021






Join us to celebrate the launch of the International Armenian Literary Alliance on March 21st, 1 pm EDT! The Board of Directors will host a virtual event to announce our new mentorship program, unveil the Young Armenian Poets Awards for high schoolers, reveal our 2021 calendar of events, and stage a virtual reading by Armenian writers from around the world.

Readers will include Lola Koundakjian, Shahe Mankerian, Nancy Agabian, Arthur Kayzakian, Olivia Katrandjian, Nancy Kricorian, Alan Semerdjian, Raffi Joe Wartanian, Arlene Avakian, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Lory Bedikian, Armine Iknadossian, Aram Mrjoian, Armen of Armenia and Marine Petrossian.

Register for this event using the link below:

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading today with Peter Balakian and Susan Barba

Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Readings

Spring 2021 virtual reading:

Award-Winning Poet Peter Balakian with BU Alumna Susan Barba
The Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series
Thursday, February 18, 7:00pm EST

Click here to join us on Zoom!


Photo by Mark DiOrio

Peter Balakian is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Ozone Journal, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, as well as Ziggurat (2010) and June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000 (2001). His newest book of poems, No Sign, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press this year.

Balakian’s prose includes The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response (2004) and his memoir, Black Dog of Fate. He is co-translator of Girgoris Balakian’s Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide 1915-1918, (Knopf, 2009). He is also the author of a book on the American poet Theodore Roethke and the co-translator of the Armenian poet Siamanto’s Bloody News from My Friend. Between 1976-1996 he edited with Bruce Smith the poetry journal Graham House Review. His prose and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, TheChronicle of Higher Education, Salon, The Daily Beast, Tikkun, The Guardian, LA Times, Art in America, and others.

He is the recipient of many awards and prizes including the Presidential Medal and the Moves Khoranatsi Medal from the Republic of Armenia, The Spendlove Prize for Social Justice, Tolerance, and Diplomacy (recipients include President Carter), a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Emily Clark Balch Prize for poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review. He has appeared widely on national television and radio (60 Minutes, ABC World News Tonight, PBS, Charlie Rose, Fresh Air, etc), and his work has appeared in a many languages including Armenian, Bulgarian, French, Dutch, Greek, German, Hebrew, Russian, and Turkish. He is a Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of Creative Writing at Colgate University.




Photo by Sharona Jacobs

Susan Barba is the author of geode (2020), which was a finalist for the New England Book Awards, and Fair Sun (2017), which was awarded the Anahid Literary Prize from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, Raritan, and elsewhere, and her poetry has been translated into German, Armenian, and Romanian. She earned her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University, and she has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She works as a senior editor for the New York Review Books.

Tuesday, January 05, 2021

Reading in Toronto

Against Forgetting — Keith Garebian's collection of twenty-eight poems was recently published by Frontenac House Poetry. 


A reading is scheduled for Saturday, January 23, 2021, at 5:00 pm in Toronto which will include some poems and will be followed by a Q &A.

To join the reading, simply visit this link at 5 pm on Jan 23rd 2021:
https://meet.google.com/otd-zzgs-syd












Keith Garebian is the author of eight books of poetry and eighteen books of nonfiction, including the acclaimed biography William Hutt: Soldier Actor (Guernica Editions, 2017). Against Forgetting (Frontenac House Poetry, 2019) is his eighth poetry collection.

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Don't Look Away: A Literary Series for Artsakh continues Saturday October 17, 2020

Please join the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) on Saturday, October 17th at 3:00 PM Eastern for the next installment of Don't Look Away, a literary series raising awareness and funds for #Artsakh, featuring Arthur Kayzakian, Lola Koundakjian, Mashinka F. Hakopian, Armen Davoudian, Nairi Hakhverdi, Alene Terzian and Alan Semerdjian.

Click here to register: http://bit.ly/ArtsakhSeries2






Friday, January 17, 2020

Presentation of a New Book of Poetry by Lola Koundakjian


Lola Koundakjian, poet and curator of the online Armenian Poetry Project, will present her recently published collection of poems, La luna en la cúspide de mi mano/ The Moon in the Cusp of my Hand on Thursday, January 23rd at 7 PM in the Guild Hall of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America at 630 Second Avenue. A Spanish/English bilingual collection published by Nueva York Poetry Press, this is Koundakjian’s third book of poems. Her previous books are The Accidental Observer (2011 USA) and Advice to a Poet (2014 Peru; 2015 USA).


At the event, Lola Koundakjian will read from her newest collection. She will also read some of her original Western Armenian poetry. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase after the reading. A reception will follow.



Saturday, April 20, 2019

Sonia Van invited to the prestigious Festival Internacional de Poésia in Medellín, Colombia

Congratulations to Sona Van, invited to appear and read at the International Poetry Festival in Medellín, Colombia, June 29 to July 6, 2019.

https://www.festivaldepoesiademedellin.org/es/Festival/29/SonaVan/

Thursday, April 11, 2019

April 24th 2019 reading in New York City (streamed event)



The event was streamed:

https://www.facebook.com/AsianAmericanWritersWorkshop/videos/2117403338561093/

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Reading in Portland Oregon





BEYOND THE G-WORD: ARMENIAN AMERICAN 
WRITERS IN HYBRID 

THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2019 7:00 – 8:00 PM 
ANOTHER READ THROUGH BOOKSTORE 
3932 N MISSISSIPPI AVE, PORTLAND, OR 

Armenian-American writers have long written about trauma as a means of social justice. Their resistance to oppression, including that of the current political moment, also expresses liberation. Through intersectional lenses of gender, sexual orientation, class, and race, Armenian-American poets/writers read work that addresses immigration, diaspora, exile, and war. This event centers Armenians' liminal position between East and West, and poc and white, challenging the “single story” of the Armenian genocide of 1915. With roots in Lebanon, Armenia, and Syria, these writers share works of hybridity that reflect and celebrate their diverse, multi-faceted lives.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Arminé Iknadossian immigrated to the United States in 1974 to escape the civil war. She earned her MFA from Antioch University. Iknadossian is the author of the chapbook United States of Love & Other Poems (2015) and All That Wasted Fruit (Main Street Rag). She teaches and writes in Long Beach, California ✸Nancy Agabian is the author of Princess Freak, a poetry/performance collection, and Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter, a memoir. Her novel, The Fear of Large and Small Nations, was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction. She teaches writing at NYU ✸Lory Bedikian’s The Book of Lamenting won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. She has an MFA from the University of Oregon. Her work was a finalist for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry and for the AROHO’s Orlando Prize. She received a grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial fund ✸Shahé Mankerian's poetry collection, History of Forgetfulness, has been a finalist for the Bibby First Book Award, the Crab Orchard Series, the Quercus Award, and the White Pine Press Competition. He is the co-director of the L.A. Writing Project and the principal of St. Gregory Hovsepian School ✸Lola Koundakjian has authored two poetry books and read in four international poetry festivals in Quebec, Peru, Colombia and West Bank. She co-curates the Zohrab Center's poetry reading series in midtown Manhattan, and runs the Armenian Poetry Project in multiple languages and audio ✸Verónica Pamoukaghlián is a Uruguayan film producer at her company Nektar Films and a nonfiction editor for Washington´s Sutton Hart Press. Her writing has appeared in THE ARMENIAN POETRY PROJECT,  THE ACENTOS REVIEW, THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC REVIEW, PRISM, NAKED PUNCH, SENTINEL LITERARY QUARTERLY, AND THE ARMENIAN WEEKLY

Friday, March 08, 2019

Book Event in Los Angeles: Alec Ekmekji's book lauch at ABRIL bookstore






Celebrating World Poetry Day!

Abril Bookstore invites you to meet

ALEC EKMEKJI 

author of the newly released book

BENEATH THE GLASS BELL

Author will be introduced by SHAHE MANKERIAN

THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019 - 7:30PM
ABRIL BOOKSTORE 
415 E. Broadway, Glendale, CA 91205

Admission is Free. For more information, call (818) 243-4112.

BENEATH THE GLASS BELL is Alec Ekmekji’s first published book of poetry, where he writes about a wide range of subjects that include music, painting, desire, mortality, other poets, and women. Proceeds from the book will go towards the empowerment and improvement of the lives of women in Armenia. This release event will coincide with World Poetry Day.

ALEC EKMEKJI was born in Aleppo, and immigrated to the United States in 1966. He is a graduate of UCLA, holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics, and worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry. Currently he is retired, continues to write poetry, and translates Armenian poetry into English. His most recent translations appeared in the Absinthe: A Journal of World Literature in Translation, published by the University of Michigan.



Wednesday, February 06, 2019

World Poetry Movement reading organized for February 15, 2019




Our readers will include: Alina Gregorian, Christopher Atamian, Chris Brandt, Dana Trupa, Gordon Gilbert Jr., Janlori Goldman, Jee Leong Koh, Kate Hogan, Lisa Whitten, Marianela Medrano, Marta Lopez Luaces, Mercedes Roffé, Miguel Falquez-Certain, Michael Klein, Robert Roth, Sarah Van Arsdale, Akram Alkatreb, and, Lola Koundakjian

Sunday, September 16, 2018