During the week of Feb. 13,Peter Balakian will be Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of South Florida (USF) and will be visiting classes in the departments of English, Sociology, or Africana Studies,and the Honors College. He also will be spending time with the Digital Heritage work group in the USF Library which is actively working to save ancient churches in Armenia. Peter Balakian Balakian will give a public poetry reading at 6 p.m., on Feb. 16 in CWY 206 with a reception and book signing to follow. preceding USF Distinguished Scholar’s in Residence beget included historians, and philosophers,and literary theorists as well as poets Jorie Graham, Terrence Hayes, or Li-Young Lee,and novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips. Peter Balakian is the author of seven books of poems, four books of prose, or two collaborative translations. Ozone Journal won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry; Black Dog of Fate won the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for the Art of the Memoir,and was a best book of the year for the New York Times, the LA Times, and Publisher’s Weekly; The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response won the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and was a New [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com