Poetry

Vanishing Act 

Remember when we believed a Stepanakert street block was too far? Mesrop Mashtots, Vazgen Sargsyan street, and so on... well, new boundaries stack those blocks, and now there are thousands, maybe millions, blocking.  My preschool days taught me how to stack the reds, the blues, and the greens of building blocks but when I would finish, they would crash down like boulders, collapsing into an unstable heap. No sense of order. No sifting through for the parts that you want, discarding my

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Danielle Mikaelian

Danielle Mikaelian is the descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors who fled to the United States. Mikaelian is a graduate of Columbia University with a bachelor’s in English Literature. She currently attends Harvard Law School. Mikaelian served as Columbia University’s Armenian Society president and currently serves as co-president of the Harvard Armenian Law Students Association. Mikaelian has been named as a two-time Huys Foundation Scholar, Armenian Bar Association scholarship recipient, Arisdine Krikorian scholarship recipient, WhoWeAre scholarship recipient, Armenian Professional Society scholarship recipient and more due to her commitment to the Armenian cause. Mikaelian was also a 2024 mentee in the International Armenian Literary Alliance Mentorship Program.

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