Sarkisian Workshop Series returns with Peter Balakian

The International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) and Mizna invite you to the second part of the Sarkisian Workshop Series featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian. The virtual two-hour workshop, “Poems that Ingest the Difficult World,” will take place on Sept. 20, 2026, at 9 a.m. Pacific | noon Eastern | 8 p.m. Armenia time. How can poems take on the difficult world — mass violence, social upheaval, the ordinary daily flow of dysfunction and cruelty — and still main