Peter Balakian

WATERTOWN — Peter Balakian continues to write poetry in a complex modernist and post-modernist tradition. He gives his take on life in today’s complicated world, both sophisticated and earthy, while[...]

BELMONT, Mass. — The audience gathered at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) on November 6 was in for a treat: the capacity crowd had the chance[...]

BELMONT, Mass. — The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) will host an in-person event with Dr. Peter Balakian, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, titled “From[...]

NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian’s new book of poems, New York Trilogy, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press. In inventive, elliptical language,[...]

By Peter Balakian Robert Jay Lifton died on September 3 at the age of 99. He was a towering figure in the field of psychohistory (psychology and history) that he[...]

By Prof. Peter Balakian (Note by Peter Balakian: This op-ed focuses on American history and the current political situation, but it would be useful context for Armenian to make comparisons[...]

HAMILTON, N.Y. — Peter Balakian’s Black Dog of Fate will be published in Tamil by the Thaddagam Press in Chennai later this year, and Balakian went to the historic south[...]

The following is a letter dated February 3 to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan from Peter Balakian, the author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, which[...]

MADRID/BARCELONA, Spain — The recent publication of Black Dog of Fate – Los Perros Negro del Destino, published in Spanish by Berg Institute Press in Madrid, was the occasion of[...]

WESTWOOD, Calif. — On April 16, 18, and 23, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian read at Claremont McKenna College, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Fresno State respectively.[...]