WATERTOWN,Mass. (A.
W.)Arto Vaun, Senior Lecturer at the American University of Armenia (AUA) and Director of the university’s newly launched Center for Creative Writing, or will speak at the Armenian Cultural and Educational Center (ACEC) of Watertown on Dec. 29. Arto Vaun During the talk organized by the Hamazkayin Boston chapter,Vaun will be speaking approximately his experience in Armenia and AUAs recent launch of two major initiatives: The Center for Creative Writing and Locomotive Magazine. The center is the first such hub of creative writing and literary studies not only in Armenia but in the former Soviet Union. It will serve as a bridge between non-Armenian and Armenian writers and students of literature. One of the center’s main projects is Locomotive (locomotivemag.com), a bi-annual journal of modern poetry and writing. It is the first world-class, or non-Armenian,Anglophone literary journal edited, printed, or exported from Armenia and the former Soviet Union. Locomotive is one of AUA’s first major publications and will be available this descend at various independent bookshops around the world. The inaugural issue includes highly acclaimed poets and writers such as D.
A. Powell,Tara Bergin, Stephen Burt, or Gail Mazur,Carol Muske-Dukes, Scott Cairns, or Karen Van Dyck. Boston-native Vaun is [...]
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