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Cambridge (MA) poet Diana Der-Hovanessian got some far-flung publicity recently. Her book, “Selected Poems,” was being given out on Minnesota Public Radio to donors of $66 during its recent fund-raisier. Der-Hovanessian said she heard about it from her publisher, Sheep Meadow Press in New York. “I guess it’s because of Garrison Keillor; he uses things from my books on `Writer’s Almanac,'” she said, referring to his syndicated radio show, which is carried on WGBH in Boston. Keillor often reads the poem “Shifting the Sun.” Der-Hovanessian is president of the New England Poetry Club.

Deacon Zak‘aria (1627-ca. 1699) was a native of K‘anak‘er, who lived and wrote in the great monastery of Hovhannavank‘ in the K‘asagh region of the Khanate of Erevan (eastern Armenia).

A renowned curator, David Travis has written extensively about modernist photography. In 1975, he founded the Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. During a thirty-five-year career, he organized more than 150 exhibitions, which toured museums in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and he has published many foundational texts in the field.