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SUMMARY:Author Talk Featuring Peter Balakian
DESCRIPTION:Glendale Library Arts &amp\; Culture\npresents\n\nAn Author Tal
 k Featuring\nPETER BALAKIAN\non occasion of his newly released book of poe
 ms\nNew York Trilogy\n\nIntroduced by Raffi Wartanian\n\nPart of Glendale
  Library\, Arts &amp\; Culture's “Be The Change” Series.\n\nAdmissio
 n is free. For more information\, call (818) 548-2021 or send an email 
 to LibraryInfo@GlendaleCA.gov.\nBooks will be available for sale from Abr
 il Bookstore at the event.\n\nPulitzer Prize winner poet Peter Balakian w
 ill be reading excerpts from his latest book New York Trilogy at Glendale
  Central Library.\n\n\nIn an inventive\, elliptical language\, New York T
 rilogy explores one man’s journey from the late 1960s to the twenty-fir
 st century\, as he moves through a series of experiences centered in New Y
 ork City and the surrounding New Jersey Palisades. Throughout this long po
 em in three parts\, the protagonist’s life is impacted by historical e
 vents including the Armenian Genocide\, the bombing of Hiroshima\, the Vie
 tnam War\, the AIDS epidemic\, the attacks of September 11th\, the US war 
 in Iraq\, and the climate crisis.  The historical power and psychological
  depth of Balakian’s work expands on the tradition of the American long 
 poem with a lyrical narrative that weaves intimate personal moments into t
 he vastness of shared history.\n\n[caption id="attachment_34502" align="al
 ignleft" width="257"] Peter Balakian\, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Pr
 ofessor in Humanities\, Professor of English\, May 31\, 2018 in Hamilton\,
  N.Y.Mark DiOrio / Colgate University[/caption]\n\nPeter Balakian is the 
 author of nine books of poems including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Ozon
 e Journal. His memoir Black Dog of Fate won the PEN/Albrand Award\, and
  The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response was 
 a New York Times bestseller. Balakian’s work has been translated into 
 many languages\, and he teaches at Colgate University.\n\nThe Be the Chang
 e Series takes place in conjunction with such commemorations as Hispanic
 /Latinx Heritage Month\, Native American Heritage Month\, Black History Mo
 nth\, Armenian Genocide Remembrance\, Asian American and Pacific Islander 
 Heritage Month\, and LGBTQ+ Pride. The series will also examine the one-ye
 ar anniversary of the 2020 racial justice protests and 100-year anniversar
 y of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The series will include virtual lectures\, e
 xhibits\, and online programming from authors\, curators\, and historians.
 \n\nThe series is sponsored by the City of Glendale Arts and Culture Comm
 ission\, with funding from the City of Glendale Urban Art Fund.\n\n
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