As part of its Poet’s Voice series, Greenwich Library will present Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian on Sunday, June 2 at 2 p.m.
Balakian is the author of seven books of poems, four books of prose, and two translations. His book, Ozone Journal, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His highly acclaimed memoir Black Dog of Fate is the winner of the PEN/Albrand Prize and the New York Times Notable Book Award.
Balakian is a major American voice, a poet and writer who is able to engage the discordant realities of contemporary life in all its starkness and difficulty—as well as in its moments of revelation, beauty, and resilience. He is the winner of the 2016 Armenian Presidential Medal and the 2007 Movses Khorenatsi Medal, Armenia’s highest cultural award. Other prizes and awards and civic citations include a Guggenheim Fellowship; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Virginia Quarterly Review; the Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best book in English on the subject of genocide and human rights and the Spendlove Prize for Social Justice, Tolerance, and Diplomacy.
Balakian has taught at Colgate University since 1980 where he is currently the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English, and Director of Creative Writing. He was the first Director of Colgate’s Center For Ethics and World Societies.
This reading is open to the public at no charge and will be held in the Library Meeting Room. For more information, email Poet’s Voice Series Coordinator, Librarian Alice Bonvenuto at abonvenuto@greenwichlibrary.org or call 203- 622-7919.
