Literary Salon at Red Hen Press with Nancy Kricorian, Lory Bedikian, and Arthur Kayzakian

We are pleased to invite you to a literary salon at Red Hen Press in Pasadena on Thursday, April 3, 2025 featuring Nancy Kricorian (Burning Heart of the World, Red Hen Press) Lory Bedikian (Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body, University of Nebraska Press) and Arthur Kayzakian (The Book of Redacted Paintings, Black Lawrence Press).

Thursday, April 3
5:30 p.m. Reception with refreshments & light hors d’oeuvres
6:15 p.m. Program
Red Hen Press: 1540 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103

Lory Bedikian is the author of The Book of Lamenting, which won the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and her latest collection Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body won the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Several of Bedikian’s poems received the First Prize Award in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry as part of the 2022 Nimrod Literary Awards.

Arthur Kayzakian is the winner of the inaugural 2021 Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series for his collection The Book of Redacted Paintings, which was also a finalist for the 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry.

Nancy Kricorian is the author of four novels about post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience, including Zabelle, which was translated into seven languages, was adapted as a play, and has been continuously in print since 1998. Her new novel, The Burning Heart of the World, about Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, will be published in April 2025.