Prior Years — Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.