ARMENIAN POETRY PROJECT

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...

Ապրիլ 24, 2026 Աւազանի անունը միայն ինք գիտէր բոլորին համար Զահրատ էր Իր հնարամիտին ուրկէ եկած ըլլալն ալ միայն ինք գիտէր, անունը Կիկօ էր Առ...

We laughed when you announced that you’d eaten the abandoned bruised pear: one more food rescue by a Depression-era kid. But now I see your ...

Gather to witness cleansing of blood tomatoes and green peppers, ground beef kneaded wholesome head bowed rice grains studding open cavities...

On a walk past bulldozers and trucks pouring tarmac for the NJ Eisenhower highway my grandmother said to me as we turned into a market with ...

I was the rag that lifted and didn’t catch the edges of things. I was lamplight. In another place, I was shaina maidel . Here, though, I was...

I don’t know how to write about schizophrenia So I’ll write about my brother I don’t know how to write about my brother So I’ll write about ...

Good white terrorism. With my signature, this danger. I commend hard nights and weekends. I want to thank the Vice. I want to thank terroris...