Friday, August 28, 2020

Poetry Workshop (virtual) at London's Armenian Institute

Bringing the Emigrant Experience into Poetry: Resilience During Transition
Lola Koundakjian will be teaching next month a virtual poetry workshop (aka Studio). Organized by the Armenian Institute in London, it will be held Saturday, September 9, 3:00-5:00 PM local time.

Lola Koundakjian, born in Beirut, lives in New York City where she regularly reads her work. An invitee to international poetry festivals including Medellin, Lima, Ramallah, Trois-Rivières and Santiago, she appeared for a second time in Medellin’s thirtieth anniversary’s virtual celebration on August 19, 2020.

Lola co-curates a poetry reading series at the Zohrab Information Center in midtown Manhattan and since 2006, has promoted Armenian culture with texts, translations and audio for the Armenian Poetry Project. She is the author of The Accidental Observer (2011 USA), Advice to a Poet (2014 Peru; 2015 USA) and The Moon in the Cusp of My Hand (La luna en la cuspide de mi mano) Nueva York Poetry Press (2020).

Fees are
£12 pounds per person
£10 pounds concessions

All instruction will be done on Zoom.

Please pay and register here.