Portsmouth Herald News, NH
April 16 2005
Genocide, Holocaust focus of poetry reading
KITTERY, Maine – Haley Farm Gallery, at 178 Haley Road, will hold an
afternoon of poetry and verse readings from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on
Sunday by Diana Der Hovanessian and Scott-Martin Kosofsky, nationally
recognized and award-winning authors.
The readings will commemorate the 90th and 60th anniversaries,
respectively, of the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust and
complement Haley Farm Gallery’s continuing exhibit “Survival Through
Creativity.”
Der Hovanessian is the author of 22 books of poetry and translations,
including “Anthology of Armenian Poetry” and her latest, “The Burning
Glass.”
Der Hovanessian’s poems are often aired on National Public Radio. She
has conducted workshops in poetry, translation and the poetry of
human rights at various universities. She is president of the New
England Poetry Club and was a Fulbright professor of American poetry
at the Yerevan State University in Armenia in 1994 and 1999.
Kosofsky is the author of “The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook
for the Jewish Year,” which was inspired by his discovery of the
once-popular literature of Yiddish customs books. He is co-editor of
the forthcoming new edition of “The Jews of Boston” and co-author,
with Brandeis historian Jonathan Sarna, of “Great Occasions in
American Jewish History,” which will be published by Yale in 2006.
For details, contact Haley Farm Gallery at (207) 439-2669.