Elise Youssoufian

A lifelong learner with a world-shaped heart, Elise Youssoufian is a US-born, Yerevan-based poet, artist, scholar and therapeutic musician committed to personal, ancestral and collective healing and liberation.
Literary Corner

Flowers of the Word (for Hrant)

You arrived in my life again, planted in the furrow, A mighty seedling of sight, of memory, of shadow, Easter…

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Poetry

The Path Through the Mountains

When you’re ready, keep it steady. The road will rise to meet you. The wind, it will surprise you, When…

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Literary Corner

What is left, then, but to listen?

Every day, I come a little bit closer To the homescapes of our mother tongue, Inviting me into gardens of…

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Poetry

Slowly, Slowly

Bathe each fresh cut in our rivers of tears. Remember, Take care of the root. Kiss all the pain into…

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Poetry

The Last Door

Dwelling at the sword’s edge of uncertainty, Haunted remnants of fears fall away from me, Turn back into the highland…

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Poetry

Artsakh’s Song

(i) In the quiet, between bombs, there is a sound, A hum, My heart still beats. One day, soon, I…

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