Poetry
From Above
For a while, I have been looking at this world from a hand-knitted spaceship. Somewhere on Earth, someone is kissed for the first time. Somewhere on Earth, someone dies for the last time. Somewhere on […]
Poetry
Poetry
Fireflies and The Warmest of Hugs
Fireflies I was taught not to fight darkness But to light a candle instead. As this world collapses One bullet at a time, I carry a candlestick Wherever I go. As bullets Land on my […]
Poetry
A Canvas in Process
Dear homeland, As you bleed from your open wounds And scream the melody of pain, I can’t help but notice The red flowers of Saryan in the rivers of your blood And the voice of […]
Poetry
Meet the 2023 Young Armenian Poets Awards winners
“It’s hard not to think of the prompt for this year’s Young Armenian Poets Awards (YAPA) as a dark harbinger of things to come for the Armenian people of Artsakh and, indeed, all Armenians around […]
Poetry
The International Community
Author’s note: I’m deeply grateful to Arthur Ovanesian and Perla Kantarjian for their invaluable suggestions. Yet again history has decided to visit the present. Like always, it has come unannounced, empty-handed. Once more, we said: […]
Reflections
To those who seek to destroy us, I see you
I didn’t realize it was a date – I never do. This skin, wrapped in so many layers, has forgotten where it begins. He was sweet – he always is. The conversation simmered as the […]
Literary Corner
North Burial Ground, Providence, RI
Driving through the gates Of this sleeping place, We pass potter’s field and turn up the hill Dotted with flat, tipped stones Toward the Armenian section. When Yankee names turn Greek We know we’re close […]
Poetry
Food of my People
Cracked wheat, Ground beef, Onions, peppers, tomatoes. Food from the old country. Food of my people. Farmers, merchants, textile artists Fight oppression for 1,500 years. Forced out in 1915 Bringing the food with them. Growing […]
Literary Corner
Poetry
Genealogy for the Bereft
Rough map in hand, the bereft walk all roads in search of name and place, word and photo. The lost ones strain to be found as accomplices hold them behind brick walls and build new […]