�°IJʿ������

BA, Bucknell University, 1973; PhD, Brown University, 1980

American poetry, creative writing: poetry, genocide studies, Armenian genocide

American poetry, contemporary poetry and creative non-fiction, modern poetry in translation, genocide studies, trauma studies, post WWI American Art

• Ozone Journal (poems, University of Chicago Press, 2015)
• Vise and Shadow  Essays on the lyric imagination, poetry, art and culture (poems, University of Chicago Press, 2015)
• Ziggurat (poems, University of Chicago Press, 2010)
• Armenian Golgotha, a memoir of the Armenian Genocide by Grigoris Balakian, translator with Aris Sevag, (Knopf, 2009)
• The Burning Tigris; The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (HarperCollins, 2003)
• June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974-2000 (HarperCollins, 2001)
• Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir (Basic Books, 1997; 10th anniversary edition, 2009)
• Dyer's Thistle (poems, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Press, 1996)
• Bloody News From My Friend by Siamanto (translation, Wayne State Univ. Press, 1996)
• Theodore Roethke's Far Fields (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1989)
• Reply From Wilderness Island (poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 1988)
• Sad Days of Light (poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 1983)
• Father Fisheye (poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 1979)
• Editor, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story (Wayne State Univ. Press, 2003)
• Poetry and essays in The Nation, Art in America, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, etc.
• Editor with Bruce Smith, Graham House Review, a journal of contemporary poetry, 1976-1996.

Weekend Edition interview 
With Scott Simon — September 2010


60 Minutes Interview: Battle Over History
Subject: Armenian holocaust — February 2010


Work published in "Poet's Choice" article of the Washington Post — 2006

"The Voice of History," New Letters, Vol. 67, No. 3, 2001
Interviewed by Rebekah Presson Mosby


Some Notes On Falling Into A Rug Introspections, etc. ed.
Pack and Parini — University of New England Press, 1997


The Cortland Review
Peter Balakian interview, transcript, and audio, including poetry reading — March 2001


When History and Poetry Collide
By Wendy Smith — Publishers Weekly, October 2003


Massachusetts and Genocide
By Peter Balakian and Gregory H. Stanton — Boston Globe, December 2005


How A Poet Writes History Without Going Mad
By Peter Balakian — The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2004


Lessons from the Armenian Genocide and America's Response
US Holocaust Memorial Museum interview — Voices on Genocide Prevention, October 2006


Appearance on NPR's "Fresh Air"
With Terry Gross — May 1997

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2016 for Ozone Journal. ()
• Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance, 2012 ()
• PBS Newshour's Poem of the week, September 7, 2010 
• Emily Clark Balch Prize for poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, 2007
• Movses Khorenatsi Medal, Republic of Armenia, 2007
• Raphael Lemkin Prize, 2005 (The Burning Tigris)
• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship 2004-05
• Guggenheim fellowship 1999-2000
• PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for Memoir, 1998 (Black Dog of Fate)
• New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Prize, 1998 (Black Dog of Fate)
• Anahit Literary Prize, Columbia University, 1990
• New York Times and Los Angeles Times notable books of 1997 (Black Dog of Fate)
• New York Times and Publishers Weekly notable books of 2003 (The Burning Tigris)
• Washington Post Notable Books of 2009 (Armenian Golgotha)