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    POET AND TRANSLATOR TO GIVE WORKSHOPS

    US Fed News
    May 10, 2011 Tuesday 1:09 PM EST

    NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 10 -- Southern Connecticut State University
    issued the following news release:

    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 [email protected] 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.

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