Peter Balakian

Peter Balakian (born June 13, 1951) is a poet, writer and academic, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities at Colgate University. Balakian was born in 1951, in Teaneck, New Jersey to an Armenian family. He was raised in Teaneck and Tenafly, New Jersey. He earned a B.A. from Bucknell University, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D., in American Civilization, from Brown University. He has taught at Colgate University since 1980. He is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English and director of Colgate's creative writing program. He was the first director of Colgate’s Center for Ethics and World Societies. Peter Balakian is the author of five books of poems,...