Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Colgate University professor Peter Balakian discusses the impact of the Armenian Genocide on his work, exploring the transmission of trauma across generations and how poetry’s resources can ingest the past. Balakian examines how his ancestors have provided a grounding for his work, ancestors like his great-great uncle, Krikoris Balakian (Bishop in the Armenian Church), one of the 250 cultural leaders arrested on April 24, 1915, and his grandmother, Nafina Shekerlemdjian who along with her two young daughters survived the Genocide enduring a harrowing death march into the Syrian desert.

6-8 p.m., UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State. Free.

https://ii.umich.edu/armenian/news-events/all-events.detail.html/150146-21908257.html