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UCLA to Host Book Release and Reading of Tenny Arlen’s Book of Armenian Verses

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May 11, 2022
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Tenny Arlen

LOS ANGELES—Author Tenny Arlen’s book on Armenian verses entitled “To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?” («Կիրքով ըսելու՝ ինչո՞ւ հոս եմ») will be presented at the University of California, Los Angeles. The book launch event will take place on Friday, May 20 at 6:00 p.m. at UCLA Bunche Hall 10383.

As the first full-length volume of creative literature composed in Armenian by a U.S.-born author after over a century of Armenian-American community development, this is a landmark achievement. It is also one of the first public outcomes of the emphasis that UCLA Narekatsi Chair’s Armenian program places on the concept of Armenian as a living and creative language in diaspora.

Tenny Arlen grew up in San Luis Obispo, CA far removed from any Armenian community. She began her undergraduate studies at UCLA in 2011 with no prior knowledge of Armenian. She took courses in Western Armenian language and literature for two years with Dr. Hagop Kouloujian, and, already a talented writer, soon began to write poetry in Armenian.

In 2013, she graduated from UCLA with highest honors, earning a B.A. in Comparative Literature. In 2015, she was admitted into the University of Michigan’s doctoral program in Comparative Literature with a plan to study French and Armenian symbolist poetry, but she passed away in a car accident in the summer of 2015 before beginning the program.

“To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?” book cover

Arlen wrote the first drafts of most of the poems collected in this book about 15 to 20 months after beginning Armenian language studies. Her posthumous book of poetry, published by the ARI Literature Foundation (Yerevan, 2021) with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, is entitled: “To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?” ((«Կիրքով ըսելու՝ ինչո՞ւ հոս եմ»), a line taken from one of her poems, in which the Armenian language speaks about its own existence in the twenty-first century Diaspora. The book was edited by Dr. Kouloujian, who also wrote its afterword, in which he tells of Tenny’s creative journey in Armenian and highlights the book’s significance as the first full-length volume of creative literature written and published in Armenian by a U.S.-born author.

This event is co-sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,  UCLA Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, and the UCLA Armenian Students’ Association. 

Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event (paperback $15; hardcover $20).

More event details, can be found online.

This is a hybrid event. Those unable to attend in person may register and participate through Zoom.

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