Quote for the month of May 2018

«Նոր է, նոր, նոր որ անհիմ
Այս հողերէն, թօթուելով մեր կեղծիքները բոլոր,
Այս քաոսէն կը ծնիմ։»

-Տեղատուութիւն եւ Մակընթացութիւն
Նիկողոս Սարաֆեան

It is as new, new, new, that from these foundationless
grounds, shaking off all our fictions,
I am born out of this chaos.

-Ebb and Flow
Nigoghos Sarafian

Translated by Hagop Gulludjian

The independence of the Republic of Armenia was declared on this day 100 years ago

Artsakh

"We Are Our Mountains"

Land-locked island, stye.
You always turn up

in the same idiot’s
eye. The same idiots

who don't get the most
idiotic thing

about you: You were once
Armenian, you are

Hye–

that is, wherever
you are cut off,

scattered, exiled
and/or broken,

wherever you are disenfranchised,
and/or dismembered,

you do and you do not die. You stay put,
and by staying put

—in your mountains,
as in your mass graves— 

you are re-
     membered,

and you multiply.

May 28, 1918-May 28, 1993

Zareh’s poem, composed for the 75th anniversary of the founding of the first Republic of Armenia, was written during the height of the Nagorno-Karabakh War. 

Arpine Konyalian Grenier reading in NYC

SATURDAY MAY 19, 2018 

FROM 4:30 - 6:30 PM 

ARPINE KONYALIAN GRENIER & MINA ZOHAL

Arpine Konyalian Grenier was born & raised in Beirut, Lebanon after the post-Ottoman era induced French rule of the region ended. Four of her collections have been published, another is forthcoming; recent work is at Journal of Poetics Research & Barzakh. She lives & writes in LA.

Mina Zohal is an Afghan American writer living in the United States.

AT THE ZINC BAR

82 WEST 3rd STREET

BETWEEN THOMPSON AND SULLIVAN STS. 

NEW YORK CITY 

$5 admission goes to support the readers 

Curators: 

The Segue Reading Series is made possible by the support of The Segue Foundation. For more information, please visit www.seguefoundation.com or call (212) 614-0505.

Curators: 

APRIL-MAY: Ana Božičević & Mel Elberg

These events are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

http://zincbar.com/