Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Tuesday, May 05, 2015
Live from Holy Cross: Ralph Nazareth reading Vahan Tekeyan and Siamanto
Who leaves behind the road of joy,
listen to me.
I know your innocent feet are still wet with blood. Foreign hands have come and yanked out
the sublime rose of freedom
which finally bloomed from the pains of your race.
Let everyone—those far away, your neighbor, the ungrateful, come and burn incense
before the goddess of Justice
that you carved from the stone with your hammer.
Proud sowers, let others reap with your scythes
the wheat that ripens in the gold earth you ploughed. Because if you are chased down by raw Evil,
don't forget that you are
to bring forth the fruitful Good.
and don’t let the happy ones see in your eyes
that image of corpse and ash.
Spare the passerby, whether a good man or a criminal, because Armenian pain
rises up in the eye’s visage.
As you walk through the crossroad of merriment
don’t let a speck of gladness or a tear
stain grief’s majesty.
Because for the vanquished, tears are cowardly
and for the victors, the smile is frivolous, a wrinkle.
What a mob, what dances, what joy
and what feasts everywhere...
our red shrouds are victory flags.
the bones of your pure brothers are flutes... with them others are making strange music.
or brother of fate.
As you study the stars,
take heart, go on.
The law of life stays the same
human beings can’t understand each other.
all of you will go back to your houses, whether they are mud or marble,
and calmly close the treacherous
shut them from the wicked
and to the face of your God...,
Even the lamp on your table
will be extinguished
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Labels: APRIL 21, Armenian Genocide, Audio Clip, Ralph Nazareth, reading, Siamanto, USA, Vahan Tekeyan
Monday, May 04, 2015
Live from Holy Cross: Aida Zilelian reading Daniel Varoujan
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Labels: Aida Zilelian, APRIL 21, Armenian Genocide, Audio Clip, Daniel Varoujan, reading, USA
Sunday, May 03, 2015
Live from Holy Cross: Arthur Nersesian reading Krikor Zohrab's Magdalene
Click to hear the audio segment.
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Labels: APRIL 21, Armenian Genocide, Arthur Nersesian, Audio Clip, Krikor Zohrab, reading, USA
Live from Holy Cross Church of Armenia - an audio series recorded on April 21, 2015
This week we launch a series of audio clips recorded live on April 21, 2015, at Holy Cross Church of Armenia, New York, NY. On that evening, we commemorated the lives of Armenian writers who were deported, killed or survived the Armenian Genocide, by reading a selection of their work.
Click here for the welcome note and invocation performed by David Bakamjian.
Our heartfelt thanks to our readers; The Parish Council and the Board of Trustees, Holy Cross Church of Armenia, New York; Houshamadyan.org; The International Literature Festival Berlin (ilb), and, the Lepsiushaus Potsdam. Special thanks to Sig Rosen for the audio recording.
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Labels: APRIL 21, Armenian Genocide, Audio Clip, reading, USA
Thursday, March 19, 2015
New Zealand's Poet Laureate commemorate's the Armenian Genocide
Click here to read the article entitled Commemorating the Armenian Genocide.
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Labels: Armenian Genocide, Diana Der-Hovanessian, New Zealand
Saturday, February 28, 2015
A reading in remembrance
Reception to follow
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Labels: Armenian Genocide, reading, USA