I am leading a two-day creative writing workshop for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation at NAASR in Belmont, MA. Participants will be introduced to the poetic language, the haiku poetic form, and old and new examples of haiku poems. By the end of the workshop, students will produce Instagram-able short poems in the haiku form in… Continue reading Creative Writing in Armenian: Poetry Workshop
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neMLA: Regional Wounds, Universal Traumas, and the Possibility of Empathy
Regional Wounds, Universal Traumas, and the Possibility of Empathy (Part 2) Roundtable with: Chair: Maryam Ghodrati, University of Massachusetts Amherst Chair: Rachel Dale, Brandeis University Location: ORLEANS (Media Equipped) Comparative Literature & Interdisciplinary Humanities “Chang-rae Lee and the Traumatic Affect of the Gesture” Susan Moynihan, Tennessee Technological University “Narrativizing Empathy in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry… Continue reading neMLA: Regional Wounds, Universal Traumas, and the Possibility of Empathy
Creative Writing in Armenian: Poetry Workshop
I led a two-day creative writing workshop for Hamazkayin ArtLinks 2019 in Paris, Ontario, Canada. Participants were introduced to the poetic language, the Հայրէն (“hayren”) poetic form, and old and new examples of Հայրէն poems. By the end of the workshop, students produced Instagram-able short poems in the hayren form in the language of their… Continue reading Creative Writing in Armenian: Poetry Workshop