2011	Publication of Armenian Poetry of Our Time by the Press at California State University, Fresno Publication of Dancing at the Monastery by Sheep Meadow Press Publication of Now I See It by Cervena Barva Press
Past Events
October 18, 2011 6:30 p.m. Tuesday	Arts at the Armory with poets DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN, FRED MARCHANT, and X.J. KENNEDY Somerville Armory 191 Highland Ave., Somerville, MA Admission $4.00 Free Parking
August 14, 2011 4 p.m. Sunday	WHERE DOES POETRY COME FROM? on August 14th it will come from DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN, X.J. KENNEDY, and F.D. REEVES THREE POETS READING FROM NEW BOOKS Longfellow-Washington Historic Site lawn (in case of rain, program will take place on the porch) 105 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA, 02138 617-876-4491 Free and open to the public
May 10, 2011 12:45 p.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday	University of Southern Connecticut English Department Lecture Series Two Workshops New Haven, CT University of Southern Connecticut event link
May 7, 2011 Saturday 7:00 p.m. free and open to the public	MUSIC AND POETRY Poets, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Avik Dermenjian, and Lucine Krikorian Poems read in Armenian by Berj Chekijian Music by composer Ara Sarkissian at the Armenian Library and Museum 65 Main Street Watertown Square Watertown, MA
April 30, 2011 Saturday 1:00 p.m.	Diana Der-Hovanessian at THE NEWBURYPORT LITERARY FESTIVAL poetry and translations Central Congregational Church 14 Titcomb St. Newburyport, MA
April 16, 2011 Saturday, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. preceded at 2:00 p.m. by an open reading	BROCKTON POETRY SERIES Diana Der-Hovanessian and Victor Howes Brockton Public Library 304 Main St. Brockton, MA
April 10, 2011 Sunday 2:10 p.m.	POETRY MONTH MARATHON DDH will read poems by Varoujan, Sevag, and Siamanto Boston Public Library Copley Square Boston main auditorium in new building 700 Boylston Street Copley Square, Boston, MA 02116 Tel. 617-536-5400
January 23, 2011 Sunday 10 a.m. worship service workshop at noon open to the public	POETRY SUNDAY DDH reads from Armenian mystic poet Gregory of Narek and Victor Howes reads from his work. First Parish Church of Malden 2 Elm Street Malden, MA 781-322-0474
December 11, 2010 Saturday, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.	GRACE PALEY MEMORIAL TRIBUTE DDH will read a tribute and poem with Nora Paley, Dan Tobin, etc. Harvard Epworth United Methodist Church 1550 Massachusetts Ave. (Harvard Square near Law School) Cambridge, MA
November 13, 2010 Saturday, 7 p.m.	ANNUAL SOMERVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL with poets Diana Der-Hovanessian, Fred Marchant, David Ferry, Martha Collins, Doug Holder Somerville Armory 191 Highland Ave. Somerville, MA
September 16, 2010 Thursday, 3 p.m.	THE ROBBERY play by Diana Der-Hovanessian sung by Nune Karapetyan set to music by Riane Rahbee Armenian Cultural Center Route 3 Arlington, MA
August 22, 2010 Sunday, 4 p.m.	CAMBRIDGE VOICES poets who live in Cambridge Diana Der-Hovanessian, Gail Mazur, David Slavitt, Matthew Pearl Longfellow National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA
July 8, 2010 6:30 to 7:30 pm Thursday free admission (followed by open mike)	LIGHT VERSE, ANYONE? DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN and X.J. KENNEDY Sponsored by the Liberty Hotel, Tapestry of Voices, and the Grolier Poetry Book Shop at The Liberty Hotel 215 Charles Street, Boston 02114 Located near the Charles/MGH stop on the Red Line, next to Mass. General Hospital
May 19, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday	poetry reading DDH and Meg Kearney Peterborough Library 2 Concord Street Peterborough, New Hampshire
May 6, 2010, 10 a.m. Thursday	Class Work-shopping your own poems English Department University of Southern Connecticut New Haven, CT
May 5, 2010, 3 p.m. Wednesday	University of Southern Connecticut English Department Lecture Series Translation Workshop New Haven, CT
April 11, 2010, 2:10 p.m. Sunday	reading poems of Daniel Varoujan (martyred Armenian poet) Annual Poetry Month Marathon Boston Public Library Copley Square Boston, Massachusetts
March 13, 2010, 3 p.m. Saturday free	Powow River Poetry Series Diana Der-Hovanessian with Alfred Nicol Jaberwocky Bookstore 50 Water Street Newburyport, MA 01950
November 9, 2009, Monday 11:00 am	Poetry Reading and Reception AIWA, Los Angeles at the Scarlet Tea Room 18 West Green Street Pasadena, California call AIWA for details
Saturday, November 7, 2009 4:45 pm readings, DDH and others Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 2:00 pm Session on The Writer and His Readership in Non-Armenian Languages, Opening paper by DDH	Armenian Writers Union Conference Jan Popper Auditorium Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Los Angeles, California Professor Peter Cowe, coordinator panels, lectures, poetry readings parking available in Parking Structure 2, UCLA
October 17, 2009 12 noon to 12:55 Free and open to the public	MASSACHUSETTS POETRY FESTIVAL Light Verse and Worse with Michael Casey, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Victor Howes, A.M. Juster, and Sue Owen at Cobblestones of Lowell 91 Dutton St., Lowell, MA (corner of Dutton and Merrimack)
September 14, 2009 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. DDH will read 2:30 - 3:00 pm book signing to follow	Meet poets Diana Der-Hovanessian and Patricia Fargnoli at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop for the Bookish Ball sponsored by the Harvard Square Business Association. A reading and book signing. Diana will read from her Selected Poems and The Other Voice, Armenian Women's Poetry in Translation. Patricia will read from her new book, Then, Something Grolier Poetry Book Shop 6 Plympton Street Cambridge, MA
August 23, 2009, Sunday 4:00 p.m. Free and open to the public	Reading her poems and translations from Language For A New Century with Nathalie Handal, Michael Archer, Martha Collins, Fred Marchant, and Afaa Weaver Longfellow Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
April 16, 2009, Thursday 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public	Reading poems and translations Sage College Bush Memorial Auditorium Congress Street downtown Troy, New York For more information: Contact Steven Leibo at leibos@sage.edu or 518-244-2330
April 9, 2009, Thursday 6:30 p.m. Free	The Omni Parker House Hotel presents A Tapestry of Voices Der-Hovanessian and Peseroff at the Isabella Gardener Room 60 School St., Boston MA 617-306-9484
April 8, 2009, Wednesday 2:30 p.m.	Lecture on translating Armenian poetry Suffolk University Boston, MA
April 4, 2009, Saturday DDH at 3:30 p.m. Free	Boston Public Library Poetry Month "Marathon of Boston Writers" Main Auditorium Boston Public Library Copley Square Boston 700 Boylston Street Copley Square, Boston, MA 02116 Tel. 617-536-5400
January 28, 2009 service and reading, 10:30 a.m. workshop 12:30 p.m.	Reading translations from Narek and other Armenian poets for the January 25th 10:30 a.m. worship service at the First Parish Malden Universalist Church 2 Elm St., Malden, MA Poetry workshop at 12:30, led by DDH and Victor Howes for the church membership and larger community Phone: 781-322-0474
December 13th, Saturday 7:30 pm $15 donation to Hamazkayin of Boston	Salute to William Saroyan presentation of his one act play Hello, Out There Speaking in English, Diana Der-Hovanessian will talk about Saroyan  at the First Aremenian Church 380 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
November 16, 2008, Sunday at 3 p.m. admission $6 (students $3)	Reading with Charles Phillips and F.D. Reeve at The Concord Poetry Center Emerson Umbrella for the Arts 40 Stow St., Concord, MA
August 14, 2008, Thursday at 7 p.m.	Reading at the Amnesty International poetry and art event (Boston Firefly Project presents a night of art, poetry, and activism to raise awareness of poverty worldwide) at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 113 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA
April 6, 2008, Sunday at 2 p.m.	Reading with F.D. Reeve at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library, 7 Barstow Street, Mattapoisett, MA 02439 telephone 508-758-4171
April 12, 2008, Saturday at 1:40 p.m.	Reading at the Poetry Month Festival at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, MA, free admission
May 18, 2008, Sunday at 3:30 p.m.	ALMA presents Ten Armenian Poems You Should Know, poems ranging from the Birth of Vahakn to the modern, translated and read by DDH with the Armenian read by Berj Chekijian and piano accompaniment by Ani Hovsepian in the Contemporary Art Gallery at the Armenian Library and Museum of America 65 Main Street, Watertown Square, MA, free admission   link to ALMA

November 2007	In November DDH was a guest at the TAIPEI POETRY FESTIVAL in Taiwan where she read from her own work and also lectured on Armenian poetry, its history, influences and major poets. As she spoke, the walls behind her were lit by projections of translations into Chinese.  During her Armenian talk about Armenian poetry, the poems of Varoujan, Charents, Frik, Koutchag, as well as contemporary writers were also projected in translation as well as photos taken by Armin Wagner, the German photographer who was in Turkey during the genocide of the Armenians.
October 2007	Diana Der-Hovanessian returned recently from Yerevan, Armenia, where she gave a talk, Waking Up to Being Armenian, at the ARMENIAN WRITERS UNION conference series on “The Hyphenated Society.” While there, she was honored by the Armenian Minister of Culture, Hasmig Boghosian, with a gold medal for her years as translator and advocate for Armenian culture.