Prior Years — International Armenian Literary Alliance
Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Tenny Arlen’s To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here? - December 6, 2025
Dr. Jesse Arlen presents To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?, a bilingual collection of Tenny Arlen’s poetry, joined by Susan Barba, Hagop Gulludjian, and Arthur Ipek.
LITERARY LIGHTS: Lory Bedikian and Brian Turner ~ Saturday, September 21, 2024 ~ On Zoom
The final installment of our 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 will be joined by award-winning poet, essayist and professor, Brian Turner.
SAS Webinar Series We are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora ~ Friday, May 18, 2024 ~ On Zoom
The webinar will feature brief readings from the book's contributors and a roundtable discussion.
LITERARY LIGHTS: The Palace of Forty Pillars ~ Saturday, May 4, 2024 ~ On Zoom
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.
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.
LITERARY LIGHTS: The Prospectors ~ Saturday, March 9, 2024 ~ On Zoom
Selected by Barnes & Noble as their book-of-the-month for October 2023, Ariel Djanikian’s newly-released The Prospectors is a sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush.
LITERARY LIGHTS: All the Ways We Lied ~ Saturday 27, 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.
POSTPONED ~ LITERARY LIGHTS: The Institute for Other Intelligences ~ POSTPONED
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. Audience members are invited to read along with the series.
LITERARY LIGHTS: The Fear of Large and Small Nations ~ Sunday, November 5, 2023 ~ 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. Audience members are invited to read along with the series.
LITERARY LIGHTS: The Book of Redacted Paintings ~ Saturday, June 17, 2023 ~ On Zoom
In Arthur Kayzakian's The Book of Redacted Paintings, the narrative arc follows a boy in search of his father’s painting, but it is unclear whether the painting exists or not. The book, a poetry collection, is also populated by a series of paintings. Some are real, incomplete, and/or missing, while most are redacted from reality.