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Event Videos — Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center

LITERARY LIGHTS: Lory Bedikian and Brian Turner ~ Saturday, September 21, 2024

LITERARY LIGHTS: Lory Bedikian and Brian Turner ~ Saturday, September 21, 2024

The final installment of the reading series, Literary Lights 2024, features Lory Bedikian, author of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry winner, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body. Bedikian was joined by award-winning poet, essayist and professor, Brian Turner.

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LITERARY LIGHTS: The Palace of Forty Pillars ~ Saturday, May 4, 2024

LITERARY LIGHTS: The Palace of Forty Pillars ~ Saturday, May 4, 2024

Wry, tender, and formally innovative, Armen Davoudian’s debut poetry collection, The Palace of Forty Pillars, tells the story of a self estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian in Iran, and an immigrant in America.

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LITERARY LIGHTS: Children's Authors Astrid Kamalyan and Leila Boukarim ~ Saturday, April 13, 2024 ~ On Zoom

LITERARY LIGHTS: Children's Authors Astrid Kamalyan and Leila Boukarim ~ Saturday, April 13, 2024 ~ On Zoom

Literary Lights is a monthly reading series organized by the IALA, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center. The series features new works of literature by Armenian authors. Each event—held online—will feature a writer reading from their work, followed by a discussion with an interviewer and audience members.

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