Peter Balakian

By Peter Balakian The fallout from Trump’s effort to control The Kennedy Center for the Arts has been predictable, and now, in the wake of so many cancellations by artists,[...]

NEW YORK — The Columbia University Armenian Center will host the Anahid Literary Prize Award Ceremony on Monday, March 30, at 4:15 p.m. at Faculty House, located at 64 Morningside[...]

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[...]