Monday 6:30 p.m. September 21, 2015 open to the public | POETRY OF MEMORY Poet KRIKOR HOHANNESIAN Poet, essayist, memoirist PETER BALAKIAN Poet, translator DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN An evening in solidarity with Armenia Cambridge Public Library Main Branch Lecture Hall 449 Broadway Cambridge, MA |
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Thursday April 16, 2015 12:30 p.m. open to the public | ENDICOTT-IBBETSON STREET PRESS Visiting Author Series - Diana Der-Hovanessian and X.J. Kennedy LSB Auditorium Endicott College |
Friday 1 p.m. April 10, 2015 open to the public | BOSTON POETRY MONTH MARATHON Key Note Poets each reading 20 minutes Diana Der-Hovanessian George Kaleogaris David Ferry Fisher College Alumni Hall 116 Beacon Street Boston MA |
Sunday October 12, 2014 3 p.m. free admission open to the public | POETS AND MUSIC WE LOST IN 1915 Diana Der-Hovanessian reading her translations with others at the Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church 101 Ashmead Road Cheltenham, PA 19012 |
Sunday August 10, 2014 3 p.m. free admission open to the public | POETRY OF PURPOSE with Diana Der-Hovanessian Fred Marchant Aafa Weaver at the Longfellow National Historic Site East Lawn 105 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA 617-744-6034 POETS Diana Der-Hovanessian, Fred Marchant, and Afaa Weaver wiill present a program of poetry that works for causes: justice, peace and to arouse the conscience. |
Friday April 11, 2014 2 p.m. free admission | DIANA DER HOVANESSIAN X.J. KENNEDY ALFRED NICOL Boston National Poetery Month Festival at the Boston Public Library Salon Room 700 Boylston Street Copley Square, Boston, MA 02116 Tel. 617-536-5400 |
April, 2013 Saturday October 5, 2013 7:00 pm - 9:00 p.m. | Inheriting the Light In Conversation with DIANA DER-HOVANESSIANand NANCY KRICORIAN Diana Der Hovanessian, poet and translator, and Nancy Kricorian, author, will engage in a dialogue about how family and communal history have inspired and shaped their writings. Emerging from a dark history, they have forged bodies of work that are committed to bearing witness to past wrongs but also to celebrating the enormous resiliency, humor and creativity of the human spirit. at ALMA 65 Main St. Watertown, MA 02472 617-926-2562 |
April, 2013 | INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL IN ARMENIA For two weeks in April, DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN and MARO DALLEY, who edited her latest book, Armenian Poetry of Our Time, will be in Yerevan, Armenia, as well as several other cities in the country for an International Poetry Festival, attended by poets from many countries across the globe. |
April 13, 2013 3:00 p.m. Saturday free and open to the public | National Poetry Month Reading DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN at the Milford Town Library Granite and Quarry Room 80 Spruce St. Milford, MA for information: Anne Berard, Deborah Eastman: 508-473-214 |
March 29, 2013 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Friday free and open to the public | Boston University Lecture Series in Literary Translation DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN at Boston University |
July 22, 2012 4:00 p.m. Sunday |  Celebration for the publication of ARMENIAN POETRY OF OUR TIME with Diana Der-Hovanessian, Tomas O'Leary, Victor Howes, and Roberto Velella, reading in English DDH signing book to Chris Bohjalian at Longfellow House VICTORIA AVETISYAN soprano, Boston Lyric Opera and YEGHISHE MANUCHARYAN tenor, Metropolitan Opera, singing in Armenian at the Longfellow National Historic Site 105 Brattle St, Cambridge MA |
2011, 2012 
 | Publication of Armenian Poetry of Our Time by the Press at California State University, Fresno Publication of Dancing at the Monastery by Sheep Meadow Press Publication of Now I See It by Cervena Barva Press |
April 22, 2012 11:00 a.m. Sunday | New England Poetry Club at |
April 1, 2012 2:30 p.m. Sunday | AMY LOWEL and ROBERT FROST STARTED IT a program of poems from some founders of modern poetry (imagists, formalists, confessionalists, and political poets) read by New England Poetry Club poets SALLY CRAGIN, DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN, VICTOR HOWES, FRED MARCHANT, and F.D. REEVE Cambridge Public Library 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA free and open to the public |
October 18, 2011 6:30 p.m. Tuesday | Arts at the Armory |
August 14, 2011 4 p.m. Sunday | WHERE DOES POETRY COME FROM? on August 14th it will come from |
May 10, 2011 12:45 p.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday | University of Southern Connecticut English Department Lecture Series Two Workshops |
May 7, 2011 Saturday 7:00 p.m. free and open to the public | MUSIC AND POETRY Poets, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Avik Dermenjian, and Lucine Krikorian Poems read in Armenian by Berj Chekijian Music by composer Ara Sarkissian at the Armenian Library and Museum 65 Main Street Watertown Square Watertown, MA |
April 30, 2011 Saturday 1:00 p.m. | Diana Der-Hovanessian at THE NEWBURYPORT LITERARY FESTIVAL poetry and translations Central Congregational Church 14 Titcomb St. Newburyport, MA |
April 16, 2011 Saturday, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. preceded at 2:00 p.m. by an open reading | BROCKTON POETRY SERIES Diana Der-Hovanessian and Victor Howes Brockton Public Library 304 Main St. Brockton, MA |
April 10, 2011 Sunday 2:10 p.m. | POETRY MONTH MARATHON DDH will read poems by Varoujan, Sevag, and Siamanto Boston Public Library Copley Square Boston main auditorium in new building 700 Boylston Street Copley Square, Boston, MA 02116 Tel. 617-536-5400 |
January 23, 2011 Sunday 10 a.m. worship service workshop at noon open to the public | POETRY SUNDAY DDH reads from Armenian mystic poet Gregory of Narek and Victor Howes reads from his work. First Parish Church of Malden 2 Elm Street Malden, MA 781-322-0474 |
December 11, 2010 Saturday, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. | GRACE PALEY MEMORIAL TRIBUTE DDH will read a tribute and poem with Nora Paley, Dan Tobin, etc. Harvard Epworth United Methodist Church 1550 Massachusetts Ave. (Harvard Square near Law School) Cambridge, MA |
November 13, 2010 Saturday, 7 p.m. | ANNUAL SOMERVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL with poets Diana Der-Hovanessian, Fred Marchant, David Ferry, Martha Collins, Doug Holder Somerville Armory 191 Highland Ave. Somerville, MA |
September 16, 2010 Thursday, 3 p.m. | THE ROBBERY play by Diana Der-Hovanessian sung by Nune Karapetyan set to music by Riane Rahbee Armenian Cultural Center Route 3 Arlington, MA |
August 22, 2010 Sunday, 4 p.m. | CAMBRIDGE VOICES poets who live in Cambridge Diana Der-Hovanessian, Gail Mazur, David Slavitt, Matthew Pearl Longfellow National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA |
July 8, 2010 6:30 to 7:30 pm Thursday free admission (followed by open mike) | LIGHT VERSE, ANYONE? DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN and X.J. KENNEDY Sponsored by the Liberty Hotel, Tapestry of Voices, and the Grolier Poetry Book Shop at The Liberty Hotel 215 Charles Street, Boston 02114 Located near the Charles/MGH stop on the Red Line, next to Mass. General Hospital |
May 19, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday | poetry reading 2 Concord Street Peterborough, New Hampshire |
May 6, 2010, 10 a.m. Thursday | Class Work-shopping your own poemsEnglish Department University of Southern Connecticut |
May 5, 2010, 3 p.m. Wednesday | University of Southern Connecticut English Department Lecture Series Translation Workshop New Haven, CT |
April 11, 2010, 2:10 p.m. Sunday | reading poems of Daniel Varoujan (martyred Armenian poet) Annual Poetry Month Marathon Boston Public Library Copley Square Boston, Massachusetts |
March 13, 2010, 3 p.m. Saturday free | Powow River Poetry Series Diana Der-Hovanessian with Alfred Nicol Jaberwocky Bookstore 50 Water Street Newburyport, MA 01950 |
November 9, 2009, Monday 11:00 am | Poetry Reading and Reception AIWA, Los Angeles at the Scarlet Tea Room 18 West Green Street Pasadena, California call AIWA for details |
Saturday, November 7, 2009 4:45 pm readings, DDH and others Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 2:00 pm Session on The Writer and His Readership in Non-Armenian Languages, Opening paper by DDH | Armenian Writers Union Conference Jan Popper Auditorium Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Los Angeles, California Professor Peter Cowe, coordinator panels, lectures, poetry readings parking available in Parking Structure 2, UCLA |
October 17, 2009 12 noon to 12:55 Free and open to the public | MASSACHUSETTS POETRY FESTIVAL Light Verse and Worse with Michael Casey, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Victor Howes, A.M. Juster, and Sue Owen at Cobblestones of Lowell 91 Dutton St., Lowell, MA (corner of Dutton and Merrimack) |
September 14, 2009 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. DDH will read 2:30 - 3:00 pm book signing to follow | Meet poets Diana Der-Hovanessian and Patricia Fargnoli |
August 23, 2009, Sunday 4:00 p.m. Free and open to the public | Reading her poems and translations with Nathalie Handal, Michael Archer, Martha Collins, Longfellow Historic Site |
April 16, 2009, Thursday 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public | Reading poems and translations Sage College Bush Memorial Auditorium Congress Street downtown Troy, New York For more information: Contact Steven Leibo at leibos@sage.edu or 518-244-2330 |
April 9, 2009, Thursday 6:30 p.m. Free | The Omni Parker House Hotel presents |
April 8, 2009, Wednesday 2:30 p.m. | Lecture on translating Armenian poetry |
April 4, 2009, Saturday DDH at 3:30 p.m. Free | Boston Public Library Poetry Month "Marathon of Boston Writers" Main Auditorium Boston Public Library Copley Square Boston 700 Boylston Street Copley Square, Boston, MA 02116 Tel. 617-536-5400 |
January 28, 2009 service and reading, 10:30 a.m. workshop 12:30 p.m. | Reading translations from Narek and other Armenian poets for the January 25th 10:30 a.m. worship service at the First Parish Malden Universalist Church 2 Elm St., Malden, MA Poetry workshop at 12:30, led by DDH and Victor Howes for the church membership and larger community Phone: 781-322-0474 |
December 13th, Saturday 7:30 pm $15 donation to Hamazkayin of Boston | Salute to William Saroyan presentation of his one act play Hello, Out There Speaking in English, Diana Der-Hovanessian will talk about Saroyan at the First Aremenian Church 380 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA |
November 16, 2008, Sunday at 3 p.m. admission $6 (students $3) | Reading with Charles Phillips and F.D. Reeve at The Concord Poetry Center Emerson Umbrella for the Arts 40 Stow St., Concord, MA |
August 14, 2008, Thursday at 7 p.m. | Reading at the Amnesty International poetry and art event (Boston Firefly Project presents a night of art, poetry, and activism to raise awareness of poverty worldwide) at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 113 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA |
April 6, 2008, Sunday at 2 p.m. | Reading with F.D. Reeve at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library, 7 Barstow Street, Mattapoisett, MA 02439 telephone 508-758-4171 |
April 12, 2008, Saturday at 1:40 p.m. | Reading at the Poetry Month Festival at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, MA, free admission |
May 18, 2008, Sunday at 3:30 p.m. | ALMA presents Ten Armenian Poems You Should Know, poems ranging from the Birth of Vahakn to the modern, translated and read by DDH with the Armenian read by Berj Chekijian and piano accompaniment by Ani Hovsepian in the Contemporary Art Gallery at the Armenian Library and Museum of America 65 Main Street, Watertown Square, MA, free admission
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November 2007 | In November DDH was a guest at the TAIPEI POETRY FESTIVAL in Taiwan where she read from her own work and also lectured on Armenian poetry, its history, influences and major poets. As she spoke, the walls behind her were lit by projections of translations into Chinese. During her Armenian talk about Armenian poetry, the poems of Varoujan, Charents, Frik, Koutchag, as well as contemporary writers were also projected in translation as well as photos taken by Armin Wagner, the German photographer who was in Turkey during the genocide of the Armenians. |
October 2007 | Diana Der-Hovanessian returned recently from Yerevan, Armenia, where she gave a talk, Waking Up to Being Armenian, at the ARMENIAN WRITERS UNION conference series on “The Hyphenated Society.” While there, she was honored by the Armenian Minister of Culture, Hasmig Boghosian, with a gold medal for her years as translator and advocate for Armenian culture.  |