Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Peter Balakian Speaks at Fresno State

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Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Peter Balakian Speaks at Fresno State

“My imagination has ingested only a filament of a huge event.” Peter Balakian, author and poet of eight books, visited the Fresno State campus on Monday, April 22 to address what Dr. Sergio La Porta introduced as a “continuation of a conversation through poetry.” Balakian’s lecture, titled “Imagining the Past: Atrocity, Trauma, and the Armenian Genocide,” reflected on how the tragedies of a historic past can leave remnants of “post-memory” on co…