World Poetry Movement
and
the Armenian Poetry Project
welcome you to a reading for a
World Without Walls
part of a New Global Poetic Action
Friday, February 15, 2019 at 7:00PM
Saint Illuminator's Armenian Apostolic Cathedral
221 East 27th Street, New York, NY 10016
Akram Alkatreb was born and raised in Salamiah, Syria, a city renowned for its poets. He attended the University of Damascus, graduating with a degree in law. Alkatreb has worked as an art critic and journalist between 1996-2001 contributing to major Arabic publications. He has published six poetry collections, including one in Spanish. He has participated in many poetry festivals around the world. He lives in America since 2001 ❃ Christopher Atamian is a writer, translator and creative producer. His credits include producing the OBIE Award-winning play Trouble in Paradise and a video selected for the 2009 Venice Biennale. He contributes to publications while working in film and theatre. A native New Yorker, he resides on the Upper West Side ❃ Christopher Hirschmann Brandt is a writer, activist, translator, carpenter, theatre worker, and a Fordham professor. Poems and essays have been published in US journals, and abroad in Barcelona, Valladolid, Paris, and Mexico, and translations by The New Yorker, Seven Stories Press, UCal Berkeley and the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña ❃ Miguel Falquez-Certain (Colombia) has been living in New York City since the 1960s, where he works as a multilingual translator. He is an award-winning author of six volumes of poetry, six plays, as well as of short stories and essays including Book Press–New York published Triacas (fiction) and Mañanayer (poetry) in 2010 ❃ Alina Gregorian is a poet and artist. She is the author of Flags for Adjectives (Diez) and Navigational Clouds (Monk Books). Her first gallery exhibition was Talk to Me in Parsley and Tambourines: Artists of the Armenian Diaspora at Babycastles. Some poems can be found in Boston Review, Prelude, BOMB Magazine, among others. Alina lives in Brooklyn, NY and can be found at alinagregorian.com ❃ Gordon Gilbert, a longtime west villager, performs his poetry, songs and monologues in the metropolitan area. He has also written short stories and a play, Monologues from the Old Folks Home. Gordon has hosted many NYC poetry readings celebrating famous poets and writers and six September “Remembrances of 9/11" readings ❃ Janlori Goldman’s poetry collection, Bread from a Stranger’s Oven, is published by White Pine Press (2017). Gerald Stern chose her poem At the Cubbyhole Bar for the 2012 Raynes Prize. Goldman’s new manuscript, My Antarctica, is eager to become a book. She teaches social justice, works at the Center for Justice, and volunteers as a writing mentor at MSKCC. She received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, and her poetry, essays, and readings are at www.hugeshoes.org ❃ Kathleen Hogan’s poetry has been published by Indolent Books’ What Rough Beast and Silver Birch Press’ Nancy Drew Anthology. She is a committee member of the Bloom Reading Series in Washington Heights ❃ Michael Klein is a member of the resistance and a five-time Lambda Literary Award Finalist and two-time winner in the Gay Men’s Poetry category. His most recent book is When I Was a Twin and recent work appears in The Literary Review and Cigibi. He teaches at Hunter College and during the day is the Executive Assistant to the Executive Director of the NYCLU ❃ Jee Leong Koh is the author of STEEP TEA (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK's Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the USA. He has published three other books of poems, a book of essays, and a book of Zuihitsu. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in NYC, where he heads the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound ❃ Lola Koundakjian enjoys reading in her city of adoption. She writes in Western Armenian and in English, is co-curator of a poetry series at the Zohrab Information Center and director of the online Armenian Poetry Project. She is the author of The Accidental Observer and Advice to a Poet. www.lolakoundakjian.com ❃ Marta López-Luaces, born in A Coruña, Spain is a poet, writer and translator. A winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Fantasy Novel, she was named Speaker for the Humanities of NYC. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literatures from New York University (1998). Author of five books of poetry, a selection of her work was translated into Romanian and Italian ❃ Marianela Medrano was born and raised in the Dominican Republic and has lived in Connecticut since 1990. A poet and a writer of nonfiction and fiction, she holds a PhD in psychology. She writes in Spanish and English and is the author of seven books. Her poetry has been translated into French and Italian ❃ Mercedes Roffé is one of Latin America’s leading poets, with publications in Italy, France, Romania, England, Brazil, Canada, and the US. The founding editor of Pen Press, she publishes contemporary poetry from around the world. She received the John S. Guggenheim and the Civitella Ranieri Foundations Fellowships ❃ Robert Roth is co-creator of And Then magazine. He is also the author of Health Proxy (Yuganta Press) and Book of Pieces (And Then Press) ❃ Dana Trupa is a poet and playwright. Her poetry has appeared in the online literary journal Red Cedar Review and the risky and provocative What Rough Beast series by Indolent Books. Dana’s dream is to book an exotic getaway surrounded by walls of poetry, a good pen, and Piña Coladas ❃ Sarah Van Arsdale is the author of four novels and a book-length poem with her The Catamount. She teaches in the Antioch/LA low-residency MFA program, at NYU, with Art Workshop International in Assisi, Italy and with Writers Harbor in Maine, and online with 24 Pearl Street and Writers.com ❃ Lisa Whitten, who is originally from North Carolina but has been in NYC for thirteen years, seeks to break down barriers and augment acceptance and understanding through her writing. She teaches in East Harlem with the dream that her students will promote knowledge and compassion and reject ignorance and hate.
