Poets in Port

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Semerdjian, Alan- is an Armenian-American writer, a musician, and an educator. Recent recognitions include two Pushcart Prize nominations, a Frontier New Poets Award; poems in Poetry International, The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, and Hanging Loose (forthcoming); and a tweet from Kim Kardashian that made his 2020 spoken word album The Serpent and The Crane (with guitarist/composer Aram Bajakian) viral for a day. Alan’s poem “The Writing About It Again” was part of a short, animated film (An Armenian Triptych: Retracing Our Steps, made in collaboration with Bajakian and international visual artist Kevork Mourad) that won recognition in several film festivals. Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian has called his first full-length poetry collection, In the Architecture of Bone (GenPop Books, 2009), “well worth your reading.”