Cummings Foundation Grant Recipient

Prior Years — Poetry

Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Tenny Arlen’s To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here? - December 6, 2025

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: The Book of Redacted Paintings ~ Saturday, June 17, 2023 ~ On Zoom

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.