ARMENIAN POETRY PROJECT

For my grandsons Rafael, Ari,  Joshua and Aaron Shirinian Un coup de dés n’abolira jamais le hasard Stéphane Mallarmé For most,  memory last...

For my brother George this is the way my father remembered his boyhood -                 a series of removals                               ...

Willow weep for me Bend your branches down along the ground And cover me (A popular song composed in 1932 by Ann Ronell,  recorded by Billie...

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

for DDH First there is the need to be a poet to bear witness through words But your poems are only words Then one day you find you have made...

April 9, 1987 Click here for the audio segment For Two Armenian Soldiers Killed in the Iran-Irak War read by Lola Koundakjian. Earth welcom...

The whole night spent preparing lessons for those kids while I drink Turkish coffee and study Armenian Even at night I am selfish I leave yo...

I My son and I are sitting on the back porch when suddenly the universe begins revealing itself to him. Papa, who broke the moon? Nobody, so...

first there are the unnamed dead and their voiceless stories that vex the restless mind family history mute into the new world lives abridge...

Lorne Shirinian's Gélinas read by Paula Fedeski-Koundakjian. L’Hôpital du Haut Richelieu St-Jean, Québec 10:32 am the waiting room is ...

Lorne Shirinian needs no introduction to North American readers. Born in Toronto in 1945, he completed an Honours BA in French language and ...