Bilingual edition of Tenny Arlen’s Armenian poetry released by Tarkmaneal Press

NEW YORK — Tarkmaneal Press announced the release of a facing-page bilingual (Armenian and English) edition of Tenny Arlen’s (1991–2015) book of Armenian poetry, first published posthumously in 2021 by ARI Literature Foundation, with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation under the title Կիրքով ըսելու՝ ինչո՞ւ հոս եմ (To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?).

The 2025 bilingual edition, co-translated by the late author and her brother Jesse Arlen, contains the original text and and English translation of everything found in the Armenian edition, including an appendix of the author’s poetic prose works, as well as an afterword by UCLA Western Armenian professor Hagop Gulludjian, in which he reflects upon Tenny’s creative journey — from being a new learner of the language to her remarkable achievement of having produced the first full-length work of creative literature written in Armenian by an American-born writer.