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Shushanik  Kurghinian
I Want to Live: Poems of Shushanik Kurghinian
AIWA Press, 2005. Forty translations, plus original Armenian, including numerous photographs, can be ordered now.
U.S. $15.95.

Translator: Shushan Avagyan
Editors: Victoria Rowe and Susan Barba
Cover, layout, exhibition designer: Eileen Claveloux
Video production: Tina Bastajian

Funding required for book/exhibition/video (updated 10/12/05): $10,250
Funding received to date, a total of: $5,150.
On 1/14/05: $650 from
On 1/31/05: $500 from the Watertown Cultural Council.
On 6/08/05: $1000 from The John Mirak Foundation.
On 10/03/05: $2500 private donation
On 10/21/05: $500 Watertown Savings Bank

All the above funds have been used, for printing, editing, design, and video. Contributions are welcome. There is still need for marketing, exhibition, and creative promotional events funding. Checks should be made out to AIWA: Kurghinian Project.
Book available now. Book launched at the Armenian Cultural Foundation in Arlington MA, on December 11th, 2005. Further presentations in Geneva (April, 2006) and Yerevan (summer, 2006).

Ordering information: List price: $15.95
AIWA members: $14.00
shipping/handling: $3.00