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Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Aram Mrjoian - September 20, 2025

Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Aram Mrjoian - September 20, 2025

AILA's Literary Lights 2025 reading series returns with an event featuring Aram Mrjoian, editor and author of Waterline, in conversation with award-winning writer Chris McCormick.

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Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian ~ Saturday, June 28, 2025 ~ On Zoom

Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian ~ Saturday, June 28, 2025 ~ On Zoom

Our June edition of Literary Lights 2025 reading series features Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, professor, curator and author of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, in conversation with award-winning writer Nancy Kricorian. 

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Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Gregory Djanikian ~ Saturday, May 10, 2025 ~ On Zoom

Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Gregory Djanikian ~ Saturday, May 10, 2025 ~ On Zoom

With Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems, 1984-2023, award-winning poet Gregory Djanikian returns to the literary scene with a collection that spans and celebrates his prolific career.

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Nancy Kricorian in Conversation with Nanore Barsoumian ~ Tuesday, April 15, 2025 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on Zoom, and on YouTube

Nancy Kricorian in Conversation with Nanore Barsoumian ~ Tuesday, April 15, 2025 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on Zoom, and on YouTube

Nanore Barsoumian and Nancy Kricorian will be discussing Kricorian’s new novel The Burning Heart of the World.

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Literary Lights 2025: A Panel Discussion with Wasafiri Armenian Issue Editors and Contributors ~ Saturday, March 22, 2025 ~ On Zoom

Literary Lights 2025: A Panel Discussion with Wasafiri Armenian Issue Editors and Contributors ~ Saturday, March 22, 2025 ~ On Zoom

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation exploring these questions with contributors to Wasafiri Magazine’s special issue, Armenia(n)s – Elevation.

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