Literary Corner
Literary Corner
Literary Corner
Letters for Peace Publishes 54 Letters Between Youth in Armenia and Azerbaijan
Letters for Peace (LFP), a project at the intersection of creative writing and conflict transformation, announces the publication of its full catalogue of letters exchanged between Armenian and Azerbaijani youth. A total of 54 letters […]
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My grandmother’s thighs
You have your grandmother’s thighs She says You have your grandmother’s thighs He says Thunder thighs I have my grandmother’s hair I say I remember its salt and pepper Streaks of white and black Salt […]
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Presenting Little Armenias: The Travel Guide of the Armenian Diaspora
PARIS – In 2018, the first edition of Little Armenias was published in French. It’s like a Lonely Planet travel guide book, but for the Armenian Diaspora. One by one, the book presents Armenian communities in […]
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Serge Avédikian, Tigrane Yégavian Author Newly-Released English Version of Diasporalogue
Diasporalogue: English Version Serge Avédikian and Tigrane Yégavian Editions Thaddée 207 pp. Kindle version available on Amazon The main objective of this book, published in 2017 in French, is to encourage dialogue and reflection between […]
Poetry
Privilege on my ancestors’ backs
My privilege is on the backs of those who suffered who experienced massacres those who fled before the big one – the first genocide of the twentieth century. My privilege is on the backs of […]
Poetry
An Ode to May 28
Armenia! Armenia outraged! Armenia broken! Armenia martyred! But Armenia liberated! Liberated by itself, liberated by its people with the help of the Armenian armies, with the support and the help of all Armenia, of the […]
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‘We Armenians Survived’: COVID-19 Connection Draws Past to Present
ALAMEDA, Calif.—Author Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut’s second non-fiction book—We Armenians Survived! Battle of Marash 1920—consists of eye-witness accounts of civilians caught between the opposing forces of Turkish combatants against the French army. “I knew my mother’s […]
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Poet Susan Barba Publishes New Book
Susan Barba’s newest poetry collection, geode, is available now from publisher Black Sparrow Press/David Godine. Barba is the author of Fair Sun and winner of the Anahid Literary Prize from the Armenian Center at Columbia […]
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Book Review: The Prince of Wentworth Street
The Prince of Wentworth Street By John Christie Plaidswede Publishing, 2020 177 pp. Armenians have been testifying and writing family histories almost since the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Zabel Yessayan famously spent long days and nights […]