ARMENIAN POETRY PROJECT

me and you lived downtown in the jewelry district where everyone is named harout or hussein across from the place my parents were married w...

daughter of armenia daughter of iran you can’t have known what you have give me offerings of coffee offerings of warm bread you can’t have know...

1. No one cares if you buried orphans your age in the ghettos of Beirut. Act like a pressed flower or practice selective mutism. 2. Like can...

My mother hated the sink that came with our new colonial house. Had it ripped out. Then found in an art shop a four foot slab of Italian mar...

You wake to a slat of light sound of dogs barking in the warm air the nothing that surrounds you is far and near from the bombing in another...

  A small but vocal group in the US is driving the current flood of book bans in school and public libraries across the country. It's im...

ՃՇՄԱՐԻՏ ՃՇՄԱՐԻՏ Կ՚ԸՍԵՄ ՁԵԶԻ Ամենէն առաջ Վախը պիտի ուռճանայ ու ծռմռի Արեւը կռնակին վրայ պիտի պառկի ցՆցում լաւա հեղեղ երբ ժայռերը գոռան լեռներ...

The throat is a country and the tongue its only passport. For twenty years he carried the question across the soft border of his palate and ...

Drink the honey that dripped from your grandfather’s hand. Swallow whole his memories of mountains marking days by ray and shadow. Follow hi...

  Ամէն արարած իր խորանն ունի․․․   Իսկ խորանը այդ             ո՛չ մայր տաճար է,             ո՛չ հուրի մեհեան,             ո՛չ սինիկոկ է,     ...

Click here for the audio recording read by Aida Zilelian I never wrote a poem about war. As a child every storm shook the walls of my home. ...

Click here for the audio recording by Tina Demirdjian  She fed me oranges and my worries went away on the road from the Bosphorus I spit the...

Click here for a recording of this poem read by the author, Diana Der-Hovanessian We were the first humans seen by those three on the dirt r...

An act can be many things at once. We can be deliverers or takers both. Was he saying thank you to the airbags, thank you to the chassis for...

(28 c.e., Rome) Domitius gives her a ring of iron Agrippina fingers it under her robes while slaves weave her hair with flowers place gold o...