Showing posts with label 2021. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2021. Show all posts

Saturday, November 06, 2021

Blue Heron Press releases a new poetry collection by Lorne Shirinian

Rendering the Timeline, poems by Lorne Shirinian, was published by Blue Heron Press on April 24, 2021.






About the Poet

Lorne Shirinian began writing poetry at an early age. Rendering the Timeline is his fifth book of poetry. He has edited two anthologies, Armenian North American Poetry: An Anthology (1974) and The Blue Heron Press Anthology: New Voices from Kingston (2000). His poetry has been translated into French, Armenian and Farsi and has appeared in a number of newspapers, journals and anthologies. He is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the Royal Military College of Canada. He has published thirty books of fiction, drama and literary and cultural studies. He lives in Toronto with his wife Noémi.




Saturday, September 25, 2021

Emerging writers showcase today

 


Monday, September 13, 2021

History of Forgetfulness, Shahé Mankerian's debut poetry collection to be released in October 2021

Shahé Mankerian releases his critically-acclaimed debut collection, taking readers back to 1975 Beirut, where an un-civil war is brewing. Mankerian asks, "Who said war didn't love / the children?" setting the tone for a darkly humorous collection in which memories of love, religion and childhood are entangled amongst street snipers and the confusion of misguided bombings.

The collection is published by Fly on the Wall Press and may be pre-ordered now on Amazon.com



Wednesday, July 21, 2021

APP list in resources for Teaching About the Holocaust and Genocide



The Armenian Poetry Project has been listed -- among other resources -- in an online list of Literature resources for Teaching About the Holocaust and Genocide, in Colorado's Department of Education.

Click here to access the list.

APP is grateful to be part of this important list and education site.




Լօլա Գունտաքճեան/Lola Koundakjian
Curator and Producer,
ArmenianPoetryProject[at]gmail[dom]com

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

World Premier collaboration of poetry, music and art

On Sunday, June 27, 2021, the Armenian Institute will present a world premier of a new multimedia collaboration with Aram Bajakian (guitar), Kevork Mourad (visual), and Alan Semerdjian (poetry). Discussion follows.


An Armenian Triptych: Retracing Our Steps


7:00 pm 8:30 pm (GMT+1)
2:00 PM EST
11:00 AM PST



For more information, click the AI's calendar of events

https://www.armenianinstitute.org.uk/events/an-armenian-triptych-retracing-our-steps


Friday, June 04, 2021

Final notice: we are moving our email subscription from FeedBurner to Follow.it

Dear APP readers:


In the next few days, we will be permanently transitioning away from FeedBurner's email subscription as they will no longer support it.

We have exported and transitioned many of you already to follow.it

You might want to check that you are getting these notices on the new platform, or subscribe by visiting APP's main page. Please note that like FeedBurner, you will need to confirm your subscription (and check your spam folder!)

follow.it has many new features which were not available on FeedBurner so check them out.
You can also read more about them at https://follow.it/all-news


Thanks, Lola Koundakjian/Լօլա Գունտաքճեան
Curator and Producer,
ArmenianPoetryProject[at]gmail[dom]com

Friday, May 21, 2021

Vacation/Vacances/Արձակուրդ



Kind Reader / Cher Lecteur / Յարգելի Ընթերցող՝


The Armenian Poetry Project is taking a break until Memorial Day (May 30, 2021).


During this period, I encourage you to read through the Project's archives by clicking on the Author or Monthly links found in the right column of the Blog.

The Armenian Poetry Project contains nearly 3000 entries, many with translations and audio clips.


Enjoy, and leave a comment. We love getting feedbacks. And if you want to help APP, send submissions, suggestions. Donations are welcome!


Best regards/à bientôt/ձ՝


Լօլա Գունտաքճեան/Lola Koundakjian
Curator and Producer,
ArmenianPoetryProject[at]gmail[dom]com

Sunday, May 09, 2021

The Zephyr poets at Litfest Pasadena 2021

Shahé Mankerian, Arminé Iknadossian and Alene Terzian-Zeitournian, the Zephyr Poets, will be appearing at LITFEST PASADENA 2021, Saturday and Sunday, May 15 and 16, 2021, Noon to 6:00 p.m.


LitFest Pasadena will livestream (12) 50-minute panel discussions as well as 10-minute interludes between each panel with pre-recorded readings and short films.

LitFest Pasadena 2021 programming will be accessible for FREE.

For more details, visit  http://litfestpasadena.org





Thursday, May 06, 2021

15th anniversary reading is now available on Youtube.com

Many thanks to the Armenian Institute in London for recording the event and uploading it to youtube.com.

The readers are:

Hratch Tchilingirian, Susan Pattie, Tina Chakarian, Theo Maarten van Lint, Vazken Davidian, Tatevik Ayvazyan, Lola Koundakjian, Gagik Stepan-Sarkissian, Olivia Katrandjian, Shahé Mankerian, Shakeh Major Tchilingirian, Arthur Kayzakian and Nancy Agabian

Saturday, May 01, 2021

Reminder: We are celebrating on May 2, 2021

 



The Armenian Poetry Project’s producer and director Lola Koundakjian likes to celebrate the Project’s anniversaries, as she put it, “quietly, reading poetry”. This year, with the help of the Armenian Institute and the International Armenian Literary Alliance, we are celebrating APP’s 15th anniversary with a reading of some of the most beautiful poems on APP’s website.

With close to 3000 posts and 200 audio clips, APP is a free site containing poems written by Armenians, as well as contemporary authors on Armenian subject matters. It represents authors from the 19th century to present, with some Krapar pieces added to the mix. Sources include out of print books, periodicals and digitized archives.
 
During this celebration, we will recreate the “Dead Armenian Poets Society” -- the semiannual gathering in precovid times at Lola’s apartment.
 
Join us as our readers give voice to the poets of the past, and experience why the lonely and the curious -- from over 100 countries -- reach out to poetry TM.

The readers are: 
Hratch Tchilingirian, Susan Pattie, Tina Chakarian, Theo Maarten van Lint, Vazken Davidian, Tatevik Ayvazyan, Lola Koundakjian, Gagik Stepan-Sarkissian, Olivia Katrandjian, Shahé Mankerian, Shakeh Major Tchilingirian, Arthur Kayzakian and Nancy Agabian
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Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 1 PM EDT – 3 PM EDT (6:00 PM in London)
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Please visit AI's page on Facebook or the website for Zoom details.

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This event co-sponsored by IALA and The Armenian Institute UK. 
Please support them by visiting the links below.
https://www.armenianinstitute.org.uk/support-us
https://armenianliterary.org/donate/

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Celebrating 15 years of The Armenian Poetry Project May 2nd 2021 at 1PM EDT and 6pm London time














The Armenian Poetry Project’s producer and director Lola Koundakjian likes to celebrate the Project’s anniversaries, as she put it, “quietly, reading poetry”. This year, with the help of the Armenian Institute and the International Armenian Literary Alliance, we are celebrating APP’s 15th anniversary with a reading of some of the most beautiful poems on APP’s website.

With close to 3000 posts and 200 audio clips, APP is a free site containing poems written by Armenians, as well as contemporary authors on Armenian subject matters. It represents authors from the 19th century to present, with some Krapar pieces added to the mix. Sources include out of print books, periodicals and digitized archives.
 
During this celebration, we will recreate the “Dead Armenian Poets Society” -- the semiannual gathering in precovid times at Lola’s apartment.
 
Join us as our readers give voice to the poets of the past, and experience why the lonely and the curious -- from over 100 countries -- reach out to poetry TM.
***
Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 1 PM EDT – 3 PM EDT
***
Please visit AI's page on Facebook or the website for Zoom details.

***
This event co-sponsored by IALA and The Armenian Institute UK. 
Please support them by visiting the links below.
https://www.armenianinstitute.org.uk/support-us
https://armenianliterary.org/donate/



Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Changes in Blogger email subscriptions



Blogger’s email subscription widget, also known as the FollowByEmail widget, will be turned down in July 2021.

At this point, there are no alternatives to the automated email feeds.


We will let our over 1000 subscribers know if there is an alternative in due course. 

Friday, April 09, 2021

Save the Date for a worldwide reading on May 2, 2021

On Sunday, May 2, 2021, there will be a worldwide reading to help celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Armenian Poetry Project. 

Details to follow.


Best regards, 


Lola Koundakjian
Curator and Director, The Armenian Poetry Project

Saturday, March 20, 2021

IALA launch, March 21, 2021

The International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA), a new non-profit dedicated to supporting the reading, writing and publishing of Armenian literature.


At the launch, board members will introduce the programming for the coming year, and seventeen Armenian writers from around the world will read from their work.

When: Sunday, March 21st at 10 am Pacific/ 1 pm Eastern / 5 pm London / 9 pm Yerevan time

Click here to register for the Zoom event.


Won't you join us!

Sunday, March 14, 2021

International Armenian Literary Alliance Launch event on March 21, 2021






Join us to celebrate the launch of the International Armenian Literary Alliance on March 21st, 1 pm EDT! The Board of Directors will host a virtual event to announce our new mentorship program, unveil the Young Armenian Poets Awards for high schoolers, reveal our 2021 calendar of events, and stage a virtual reading by Armenian writers from around the world.

Readers will include Lola Koundakjian, Shahe Mankerian, Nancy Agabian, Arthur Kayzakian, Olivia Katrandjian, Nancy Kricorian, Alan Semerdjian, Raffi Joe Wartanian, Arlene Avakian, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Lory Bedikian, Armine Iknadossian, Aram Mrjoian, Armen of Armenia and Marine Petrossian.

Register for this event using the link below:

Friday, February 26, 2021

2021 Young Armenian Poets Awards announced by IALA - International Armenian Literary Alliance

 IALA is announcing its inaugural Young Armenian Poets Award for ages 14-18. Deadline for submission is April 30, 2021

Guidelines

  • Poems must be no longer than 50 lines.
  • Poems must be submitted in English (translations are welcomed but the translator must be credited).
  • Writers may submit no more than 3 poems per submission and make only one submission.
  • All poems must be in the same document, and each must start on a new page.
  • Poems should be submitted in Garamond, size 12 font, and single-spaced with standard margins (1 inch on each side of the page unless the aesthetic of the poem calls for variations).
  • Poems should be submitted as .pdf, .doc, or .docx files.
  • All students must fill out registration information through our Google Form with their submission.
  • No personal information (including author names) should appear on the submission, as work will be read anonymously.
  • Writers must identify as Armenian.

For further details, click on  this link

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading today with Peter Balakian and Susan Barba

Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Readings

Spring 2021 virtual reading:

Award-Winning Poet Peter Balakian with BU Alumna Susan Barba
The Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series
Thursday, February 18, 7:00pm EST

Click here to join us on Zoom!


Photo by Mark DiOrio

Peter Balakian is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Ozone Journal, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, as well as Ziggurat (2010) and June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000 (2001). His newest book of poems, No Sign, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press this year.

Balakian’s prose includes The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response (2004) and his memoir, Black Dog of Fate. He is co-translator of Girgoris Balakian’s Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide 1915-1918, (Knopf, 2009). He is also the author of a book on the American poet Theodore Roethke and the co-translator of the Armenian poet Siamanto’s Bloody News from My Friend. Between 1976-1996 he edited with Bruce Smith the poetry journal Graham House Review. His prose and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, TheChronicle of Higher Education, Salon, The Daily Beast, Tikkun, The Guardian, LA Times, Art in America, and others.

He is the recipient of many awards and prizes including the Presidential Medal and the Moves Khoranatsi Medal from the Republic of Armenia, The Spendlove Prize for Social Justice, Tolerance, and Diplomacy (recipients include President Carter), a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Emily Clark Balch Prize for poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review. He has appeared widely on national television and radio (60 Minutes, ABC World News Tonight, PBS, Charlie Rose, Fresh Air, etc), and his work has appeared in a many languages including Armenian, Bulgarian, French, Dutch, Greek, German, Hebrew, Russian, and Turkish. He is a Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of Creative Writing at Colgate University.




Photo by Sharona Jacobs

Susan Barba is the author of geode (2020), which was a finalist for the New England Book Awards, and Fair Sun (2017), which was awarded the Anahid Literary Prize from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, Raritan, and elsewhere, and her poetry has been translated into German, Armenian, and Romanian. She earned her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University, and she has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She works as a senior editor for the New York Review Books.

Tuesday, January 05, 2021

Reading in Toronto

Against Forgetting — Keith Garebian's collection of twenty-eight poems was recently published by Frontenac House Poetry. 


A reading is scheduled for Saturday, January 23, 2021, at 5:00 pm in Toronto which will include some poems and will be followed by a Q &A.

To join the reading, simply visit this link at 5 pm on Jan 23rd 2021:
https://meet.google.com/otd-zzgs-syd












Keith Garebian is the author of eight books of poetry and eighteen books of nonfiction, including the acclaimed biography William Hutt: Soldier Actor (Guernica Editions, 2017). Against Forgetting (Frontenac House Poetry, 2019) is his eighth poetry collection.