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 […]
Literary Corner
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 […]
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 clay formed Long before being remade by our գոյամարտ. Howling at the grey wolves prowling […]
Poetry
Autumn in Artsakh
are you well rested? a celestial commotion is well underway. body forth your autumnal awe, gentle and moving to and fro the changing seasons, the burying of red flesh, fallen prey, oceans away. and yes. […]
Literary Corner
Deranian’s book on the Armenian Orphan Rug in Translation
In 2013 the Armenian Cultural Foundation published President Calvin Coolidge and the Armenian Orphan Rug by Dr. H. Martin Deranian. The result of over three decades of research and investigation, Dr. Deranian’s work traces the […]
Poetry
Will You Stand With Me?
What kind of society do we live in? Where a fly gets more attention? Than when a genocide gets resurrected? And bombs a School?! Church?! City?! People! People! People! I’ve been watching the news Vice […]
Poetry
Artsakh’s Song
(i) In the quiet, between bombs, there is a sound, A hum, My heart still beats. One day, soon, I will return. What is an hour, a night, a year, But a heart keeping time? […]
Poetry
For Artsakh
Our people shed blood on the arm of denial on repeat as if there wasn’t a genocide of 1.5 million Armenians a whole world is looking— no more desecration on ancestral lands the diaspora aches […]
Poetry
Literary Corner
Presenting Sam Zadig’s The Earth Was Hers
The Earth Was Hers By Sam Zadig June 2020 356 pp. A beautiful Afghani girl is the lone survivor in her family after an attack by the Taliban. With the aid and encouragement of an […]