"Armen Davoudian Weaves Together Persian, Armenian Culture Through Poetry"
"Davoudian’s poem about his grandfather and rugs was especially memorable, he said. Davoudian said in his reading that his grandfather had a collection of rugs....Bilezikian added that rugs are often made locally, communicate stories and can be viewed as art and a way for people to express themselves. Davoudian’s poem, titled 'Rug Game,' ended with a connection between the death of his grandfather and a rug that can no longer be fixed."
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What Sparks Poetry: Matthew Cooperman on Reading Prose
"How will we spend our days? How will we attend to our rapidly accelerating planet? One habit of response is to read bracing prose, and for me, it’s often “the consolations of philosophy,” to quote an excellent recent example by Alain de Botton. From the Affective Turn to the Queering of Nature, Object Oriented Ontology to Anthropocene Studies, there’s an incredible florescence of philosophical writing going on internationally, as if climate change has triggered all our cells to wake up." |
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