Balakian reads at Claremont McKenna, UCLA and Fresno State

On April 16, 18 and 23,  Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian read at Claremont McKenna College, UCLA and Fresno State, respectively. His reading and autobiographical talk “Imagining the Past: Atrocity, Trauma and the Armenian Genocide,” given in conjunction with the commemorative events for April 24, focused on the impact of the Armenian past on his work.