Reading in Southern California
Հայ Բանաստեղծութեան Համացանցը։ Projet de Poésie Arménienne
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Labels: Rouben Sevak, Turkey
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Labels: Contemporary, France, Krikor Beledian, Translated into French
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Labels: Contemporary, Kosrof Chantikian, USA
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Labels: Contemporary, Kosrof Chantikian, USA
I enter the small cafe in the early morning
rain falling lightly
huddled together a dozen Greek men
smoking their interminable
cigarettes drinking coffee and cognac
are talking loudly
old now from years of hard toil
I can see the wrinkles and holes in their faces
like cold sponges on the ocean floor
and yet these old men I know their laughter
I know their laughter means
this is the beginning of another day
would you relive your life?
live it over to make sure your face had no holes or scars?
you say you would – if only you could have a face new
as smooth and soft as sand on the beach
but how would you do it?
in the early morning rain
these old men squeezed together between
five small round tables
sit with their legs crossed
and watch each other
smoke and talk and then laugh
how much is this laughter worth? the old man next
to me orders a last coffee and cognac
he looks at me and waves asking me to join him
I cannot help feeling he has read my thoughts
I was thinking about his death
thinking that he would die soon
and how foolish some questions are
this old man is not going to relive his life
none of us will
in the end he had answered my question again
laughter was more than death
laughter was the beginning of each morning
of each night was the sky and slow falling rain
I looked at the others and I saw countless cigarettes
and then laughter overwhelm the quiet sky
This poem appeared in the Marin Poetry Center's website with an audio recording.
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Labels: Audio Clip, Contemporary, Kosrof Chantikian, USA
Lory Bedikian
author of The Book of Lamenting
winner of the 2010 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
&
William Archila
author of The Art of Exile and newly released The Gravedigger's Archaeology
winner of the 2015 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Press Poetry Prize
will be reading at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, California
on Saturday, June 20th at 3 p.m.
Introduction by Prof. Michael Datcher
Vroman's Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91101
626-449-5320
(Fax) 626-792-7308
email@vromansbookstore.com
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Labels: Lory Bedikian, reading, USA
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Labels: France, Nigoghos Sarafian
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Labels: Canada, Hamazkayin, reading
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Labels: 2014 Competition, Contemporary, Katia Khanlian, USA
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Labels: 2014 Competition, Contemporary, Emily Hagopian, USA
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Labels: 2014 Competition, Contemporary, GEGHAM MUGHNETSYAN, USA
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Labels: 2014 Competition
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