Featured Speaker: Peter Balakian

Location: 

Faculty House, Columbia University, New York

Date and Time:

Monday, October 27th 2025, 2025 at 4:00 PM EST / 1:00 PM PST to 5:30 PM EST / 2:30 PM PST

Join Peter Balakian at Columbia University for a reading from his new book New York Trilogy.

An American long poem in three sections by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian that moves between decades of tumultuous life in New York City and the Middle East. In inventive, elliptical language, New York Trilogy explores one man's journey from the late 1960's to the twenty-first century as he moves through a series of experiences centered in New York City and the New Jersey Palisades. Comprised of three multisequence poems originally included in Petere Balakian's collections No Sign, Ozone Journal, and Ziggurat, the sections of New York Trilogy come together to form a poetry that embraces interior and aesthetic experiences, celebrates human intimacy, and bears witness to history.

CO-SPONSOR:

The Armenian Center at Columbia University

Columbia Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies