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 […]
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 […]
Deep brown hints of secrets are hidden in her eyes. A faraway gaze out the window into distant lands, she remembers the smell of sand, a shapeless sanctuary. A nameless nomad, she ran with the […]
What do the birds teach us in these times of pandemic? Vocalizing sounds as music greeting dawn in a universal language where tweets, cackles, trills, pecks are a prayer unto themselves monovocal melodies from song […]
In an initiative the likes of which the Diaspora hasn’t seen in over a generation, Roslin Press is proud to announce the first-ever Armenian production of Osamu Dezaki’s anime rendition of the classic swashbuckling adventure, […]
Losing your way in mid-life, as I did about ten years ago, is not unusual. As we reach our sixth and seventh decades, we find we may have shed the identities that we believed defined […]
This poem was written to commemorate the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. It was inspired by nursery rhymes being much darker in actuality than how we initially believe them to be when we are […]
Yet alive, I shall not let fall my apricot sun never will I shake, shake my ancestry loose nor will I scrape off those days of old off my skin before it catches rust. I […]
Consider the following two books by author David Kherdian: Homage to Adana is a deep dive into the essence of the immigrant experience, told through a series of lyrical poems. Right Now, on the other […]
No matter what country they live in or how many figures they make a year, there seems to be one universal truth that moms and dads everywhere know; that at some point, their children will […]
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