
April 16: Claremont/McKenna College: Peter Balakian “Imagining the Past: Atrocity, Trauma, and the Armenian Genocide”
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian discusses how he has worked through filaments of Armenian history to create an inventive body of literature. He will explore how his work has moved across generations in his writing both poetry and memoir about the Armenian Genocide. How can a past historical event be transformed by the linguistic […]