Armenian Institute is excited to welcome back our dear friend and renowned poet, Lola Koundakjian, founder of the Armenian Poetry Project for a blended in-person/online follow up to her successful poetry studio at the height of the pandemic in 2020. For the theme, she’s chosen ‘Resilience During Transition: Bringing the Emigrant Experience into Poetry’, and participants will be invited to reflect on this through a series of example pieces. Whether you’re joining us to write your first pieces, or already a practiced hand, Lola will help bring out the best in your creative ability.

Cost: £12 per person (£10 concessions)

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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-Rivieres and Santiago, she last appeared for a in second time in Medellin’s thirtieth anniversary virtual celebration in 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).

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