Sunday, June 26, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Վահան Զանոյեան։ ...Ու Եզրէն Անդին
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Labels: Contemporary, Lebanon, Vahan Zanoyan
Friday, June 24, 2011
Վահան Զանոյեան։ Հոգիիդ Եզրին...
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 6/24/2011 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Contemporary, Lebanon, Vahan Zanoyan
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Վահան Զանոյեան։ ՊԱՏՈՒԱՆԴԱՆՍ
Պատուանդանս տանս մէջ չէ
տունս փոքր է
ոչ ալ բակին մէջ դիմացի
բակն ալ փոքր է
բայց եթէ դուն
մնաս արթուն
գիշերուան փոքր ժամերուն
եւ յանդգնիս նայիլ հեռուն
հորիզոնէն անդին
լոյսին
գուցէ լսես
անհնազանդ
ճիչերն այն լուռ
որ մերժեցին ամէն հրահանգ
որ խախտեցին ամէն օրէնք
ու մատնեցին մեծ շփոթի
գիտունները իրենց օրուան
ըրին այն որ չէր կարելի
հասան հոն ուր չէի՛ն կրնար
եղան այն որ պէտք չէ՜ր ըլլալ...
Եթէ նայիս ուշադրութեամբ
գուցէ տեսնես
ուրուագիծը
իմ ահարկու
հսկայական
պատուանդանիս
խարսխուած հորիզոնին փէշերուն մէջ
ու տարածուած անկէ անդին
մինչեւ անհուն
Այդ ժամերուն
ընդհանրապէս
հոն կը բազմի
հոգիս արբուն...
Եւ հոն կ'ապրին
միանգամայն
ներկան անցեալն ու ապագան
երբ ես հոն եմ
չկայ ուղիղ
չկայ սխալ
յաջող ձախող
չունին իմաստ
Եթէ նայիս
ու չվախնաս
գուցէ տեսնես
պարզութիւնը
այս անսահման
մեծութեան
գուցէ զգաս
մորթիդ վրայ
մեծութիւնը
շշմեցնող այս
պարզութեան...
Եթէ տեսնես
ու չփախչիս
գուցէ դուն ալ
օրուան լոյսով
մա՛հդ ապրիս
վերականգնիս
...ու յայտնուիս
Վահան Զանոյեան
Հոկտեմբեր 2010
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 6/23/2011 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Contemporary, Lebanon, Vahan Zanoyan
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Վահան Զանոյեան: ՀԱՐՑՈՒՄԸ
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Labels: Contemporary, Lebanon, Vahan Zanoyan
Sunday, June 19, 2011
ՅԱԿՈԲ ՊԱԼԵԱՆ` Նիւ Եորք
Հինգշաբթի, Յունիս 23, 2011, երեկոյեան ժամը 8:00-ին
Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 8:00 PM
ՀԱՅ ԿԵԴՐՈՆ, ARMENIAN CENTER
69-23 47th Avenue, Woodside, NY
Դասախօսութենէն ետք՝ հիւրասիրութիւն:
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Mark Gavoor: Typing on an Airplane
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Labels: Contemporary, Mark Gavoor, USA
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Michael E. Stone: Geghard
I went to Geghard yesterday.
By the way you can see
fruit trees and villages and stalls selling jam
and coloured necklaces of walnuts and apricots.
Snow and stone roaring down
washed out the road in places.
Volcanic rock and tufa gravel shining with black obsidian flakes
witnessed the volcano’s creation, the lava’s upward push.
Its power.
I was in Geghard yesterday.
It is as beautiful as ever,
and the frothing, foaming stream swollen with snow melt
carolled its spring song sprinting down from the peaks.
Over the lace stone doorway,
two bulls rearing up
and two birds en face in the spandrels,
coat-of-arms of dead princes evoke
another, former time
when the caves resounded
with chanting and incense.
Bishops and barons,
Smbat and Burtel,
they reached even here,
bulls and eagles, pomp and ceremony,
and cells dot the hills.
Peaks, some snow and the river’s cascade
at the foot of the church’s hill.
Polychrome fruit lavash, and
round pilgrims’ bread hawked.
Stone crosses in the rock above,
strive to vanquish the rocky cliffs,
bring them under faith’s yoke,
like our selves our bodies.
May 7 2011
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Labels: Contemporary, Israel, Michael E. Stone
Monday, June 13, 2011
James Najarian: Travelogue
Our travel papers are seldom in order.
We lack a visa, or the proper stamps.
More often than not, we're stopped at the border,
Our documents held to the light, just like this.
Our endorsements are in the wrong color ink,
Our signatures void, our persons suspicious.
This isn't the first time we've been refused entry.
You are a country we will never visit.
We view your coast from a deck on the sea,
Or get a hold of photographs, somewhere.
The kind of pictures that reveal nothing –
Cloudy landscapes taken from the air –
They tell us nothing we're not meant to know.
No one responds to calls at the consulate.
There's no national airline or tourist bureau.
You are a nation whose borders are closed:
A tiny state in the hills, like Bhutan.
The ridges and valleys stay unexposed.
Or you are a gap on the map of the world;
Your body, a continent, could be Antartica:
Cool, pale, and barely explored;
It could be perilous – the Khyber Pass,
A place without settlers – the Serengeti,
Or a place found only on a prewar atlas
Where half the globe is either pink or blue
Ubangi-Shari, or Bechuanaland,
Or someplace even harder to get to:
Cathay, Cibola, Lemuria, Mu.
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 6/13/2011 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Contemporary, James Najarian, USA
Sunday, June 12, 2011
James Najarian: With the Herd
Late in the afternoon, the goats ascend
the stubbled hills in strictest precedence
first, the "queen," the strongest of the does,
then each goat in order of her rank,
trailed by her skipping kids-then yearlings,
and at the end the old, complaining ones.
The herd will linger near the tractor paths
nimbly lipping kernels from bare roots,
craning their earthbound necks for maple leaves,
dowsing for dandelion and dock. Most evenings
they return, in the same, now satiated line.
But some desks, the riches are too much for them;
they squander hours with their relentless mouths.
The sun drops anonymous into the damp
and they find themselves abandoned in blind fields—
while you, indoors, are waiting for the thump
of their returning hooves-and hearing nothing.
You must give up on your accustomed walls
to hoof and blunder through the black alone.
Flashlight in hand and calling to no answer,
you shine your flimsy beam on forest edges,
illuminating vines and sumac, until
you stumble on them unexpectedly
silent and watchful, clustered in a circle,
the nannies fortressing the kids within,
just as their ancestors must have, outside
the tents of Ishmael or Abraham.
Stop calling them. Stand still. They will not stir
until you turn the light on your known face,
their weak eyes recognize and understand.
Now, rising as a body, they will follow you,
grateful and hushed as only they can be.
Together, you will find your way back home.
This poem appeared in the Fall/Winter 2009 issue of Westbranch
Copyright © James Najarian
James Najarian grew up on a goat farm in northern Berks country, Pennsylvania. He has published poetry in small literary journals including Ararat, Tar River Poetry,Watershed, and West Branch. He teaches Romantic and Victorian literature at Boston College. He is the author of a critical work entitled Victorian Keats: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Desire, (Palgrave Macmillan 2002) and lives in the Brighton section of Boston.
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Labels: Contemporary, James Najarian, USA
Saturday, June 11, 2011
ԸՆԹԵՐՑՄԱՆ ՀԱՆԴԻՊՈՒՄ
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