Hratch Demiurge

Hratch Demiurge is a comedian, teacher and translator of Daniel Varoujan's Pagan Songs (2019) and, along with his students, Hagop Baronian's My Ledger (2024). He lives in Los Angeles.
Poetry

HYE definitions

“What is necessary is to rectify names” — Confucius, Analects, 13.3 PRELUDE To this nation which lives without care or…

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Poetry

The Velvet Zealot, Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan

My name is Nikol, a die-hard democratic zealot, Who was whisked to power on wings of Velvet. It was a…

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Satire

Yervant Odian and the odious truth

A classic joke attributed to Yervant Odian goes: Why is the truth always being raped? Because it is naked and…

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Satire

How to argue like a Pashist (Pashinyan loyalist)

Armenia today is a transparent democracy. It is a democracy because, as the Greek root of the word suggests, “the…

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Opinion

Kakig, or why the Western Armenian dialect should not be preserved

When was the last time a speaker of the Western dialect of Armenian named one of their sons after the…

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