November 15, 2020
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The Beating Heart of Artsakh: A Photo Essay

by Jonathan Alpeyrie in Photography 4

In the course of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which reached a sudden end on November 9, Artsakh was steeped in a humanitarian disaster. The Armenian settlements of Artsakh endured persistent shelling and the [...]
  • Poetry

    How to make a fire

    To make a fire, Clear rocks and stones To find earth dry enough to serve The blaze to come. Gather tinder, kindling and wood Because you need all three For the flame to catch and [...]
  • Poetry

    Bearing the Desired Fruit & Flesh

    Animosity- the word taints my palate already, nesting this once again rage. I wake to tales of animosity, breaking my fast of evening, my insides churn into a blood batter of the cortisol passed down [...]
  • Photography

    The Beating Heart of Artsakh: A Photo Essay

    In the course of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which reached a sudden end on November 9, Artsakh was steeped in a humanitarian disaster. The Armenian settlements of Artsakh endured persistent shelling and the [...]
  • Poetry

    Only the war

    I spent two hours Buffing away a century and a fifth Of corrosion from a doorknob, To get my mind Off the madness around me– So far, yet so close– While flipping channels on the [...]
  • Poetry

    A Yerevan Boy Who Sleeps with a Toy Gun

    (The following poem was inspired by a heart-wrenching letter from a friend in Yerevan who told me of her son’s reaction to the war in Artsakh)  Three hundred, thirty-nine kilometers away Azeri bombs murder those [...]
Opinion

Cultural (Mis)Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation?

Lady Gaga’s new video clip “911,” Victoria Secret model Stella Maxwell’s photos in daraz for Vogue Russia from 2015 and Kanye West’s Yeezy brand runners named “Ararat” have all recently sparked polarizing opinions on social [...]

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