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Diana  Der Hovanessian
	President of the New England Poetry Club	Noted Armenian American poet She is well known for her striking and original poetry, which is subtle and humorous at times, vividly tragic at others. Her translations from Armenian men and women poets has exposed their talent and thoughts to the world.

Diana Der Hovanessian was born and raised in New England. A person of great conviction and drive to justice, she has taken it as her mission to inform the world of the history of her Armenian ancestors. Her accolades are many. Most recently she was Fulbright professor of American poetry at Yerevan State University, 1999 and 1994. She has authored 17 books of poetry and translations. She has won awards from the NEA, PSA, PEN-Columbia Translation Center, National Writers Union, American Scholar, Prairie Schooner, and Paterson Poetry Center. Her work has appeared in publications such as the American Scholar, Agni, N.Y. Times, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Paris Review, Nation, and Partisan Review. She has taught workshops in translation, poetry of human rights, and How to Sell What You Write at various universities and at the Boston Globe Book Festival.

Books	Dates
The Other Voice Armenian Women's Poetry Through the Ages	AIWA Press, 2005
The Burning Glass	Sheep Meadow Press, 2002
Any Day Now: Poems	Sheep Meadow Press, 1999
Selected Poems	Sheep Meadow Press, 1997
The Circle Dancers	Sheep Meadow Press, 1997
Songs of Bread, Songs of Salt	Ashod Press, 1990
About Time	Ashod Press, 1987
How to Choose Your Past	Ararat Press, 1980
Translations	Dates
Lamentations of St. Gregory	VEM Press, Yerevan, 2003
Valley of Flowers	1997
Inside Green Eyes, Black Eyes	Yerevan, Armenia 1986
Land of Fire, poems of Eghishe Charents	Ardis Press, 1986
Selected Poems of Gevorg Emin	Poetry Forum, 1984
Come Sit Beside Me and Listen to Koutchag, medieval poems
The Arc, poems of Shen-Mah	1983
Sacred Wrath, poems of Vahan Tekeyan	1982
Anthology of Armenian Poetry	Columbia University Press, 1979

from   The Burning Glass   The Machine of War   The machine of war   used to be   a marching machine   like a centipede   coordinated by   hunger and need.   It's mechanized now   and flies in planes   dropping bombs below   in indiscrimate rain   but still has   an insect's brain.

from The Burning Glass   Hokusai Print 1798   New fallen snow   on trees etched black   beyond the window   where the pair   of lovers speak.   One clings,   one leans back   in warm robes. Outside   everything is bleak   and bare.   In the room one waits   for a miracle,   the other knows it's there.

Translation from   Anahid Barsamian   Your Voice   Your clear voice so smooth.   Your words balm and gauze   Soothe the hurt and pain   they themselves have caused.

Sources: Most of the information about the poet is from the Soulstirring.org/artist and Orwell Bookstore web sites, with additional information about publications provided by the poet. Another poem translated by Diana Der-Hovanessian: "Let us Unite" by Shushanig Kurghinian. The above information was compiled by Gina Ann Hablanian.