Poet and Translator to Give Workshops

Tue., May 10

On Tuesday, May 10, 2011, Diana Der-Hovanessian, the president of the New England Poetry Club and the foremost editor and translator of Armenian poetry in the United States, will present programs for the SCSU community:

• 12:30-1:40 p.m., Engleman 266D -- Der-Hovanessian will give advice about how to do translations, how to edit a book, read some of her translations of Armenian poetry and read her own poems from her new book, Dancing at the Monastery.
  
  
• 1:45-3:00 p.m. in Engleman 245D -- She will be available for individual discussion.
  
  
• 3:15-4:30 p.m. -- She will present another program in The English Common Room, Engleman 245D.

Please contact Vivian Shipley at shipleyv1@southernct.edu for a specific appointment. 

Der-Hovanessian was twice a Fulbright professor of American Poetry and is the author of more than 25 books of poetry and translations. She has awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, PEN/Columbia Translation Center, National Writers Union, Armenian Writers Union, Paterson Poetry Center, Prairie Schooner, American Scholar, and the Armenian Ministry of Culture. Among the several plays written by Der-Hovanessian, two (The Secret of Survival and Growing Up Armenian) were produced, and in 1984 and 1985 traveled to many college campuses, telling the Armenian story with poetry and music.  After 1989, The Secret of Survival, with Michael Kermoyan and later with Vahan Khanzadian, was performed for earthquake relief benefits.

She works as a visiting poet and guest lecturer on American poetry, Armenian poetry in translation, and the literature of human rights at various universities here and abroad.
 
Her visit to Southern is sponsored by a Faculty Development Grant.