Poetry Under the Stars
Featuring the work of five published and award winning Armenian-American poets
Weds Sept 27, 6 pm
Free
Join us on the Fowler terrace for an evening of poetry that will transport guests to the primordial homeland of Armenia.
Following the Armenian genocide of 1915, survivors settled into their forced homelands in the Middle East, where different cultures met and intertwined. Many of those survivors emigrated again to the New World, America, where they arrived with two suitcases and heavy hearts filled with the intangible materiality of traditions and customs from the homeland.
Five published and award winning Armenian-American poets—Shahé Mankerian, Tina Demirdjian, Raffi Joe Wartanian, Arthur Kayzakian and Armine Iknadossian—will converse with each other through their poems. Their evocative dialogues will be punctuated by interludes by poet-musician Raffi Joe Wartanian, who will infuse the warm timbre of the oud, a Middle Eastern string instrument into the gathering.
Refreshments will be served.