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 2011
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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.

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