Literary Corner
“Who Remembers the Palestinians?”
Who Remembers the Palestinians? after Najwan Darwish We do and I ride the bus to the Nakba protest with them each day and my soorj, this morning We are drinking it with them You, […]
Poetry
Literary Corner
Bomb safety instructions for Artsakh’s children
Stay far from fruit trees And unplowed fields. Avoid places where flora Hides crops sown by Planters in camouflage To feed fright and flight. Don’t touch the bomb, my baby. Don’t touch the bomb, my […]
Literary Corner
Diasporan Twisties
It starts when Mind and body Forget connection Like place loses balance When borders move. History is testament To brave versus invader. Winners draw the maps But new lions come For the stolen places And […]
Literary Corner
On Hearing the Voice of a Child Singing Der Voghormia
Head bent, hunched forward on hard bench Settling in for the eyes shut and Bones and dirt and Feeling alone. But bones and dirt scatter with the Voice of a child from behind the curtain. […]
Poetry
A Black Day – A New Calling
No direction, no light, no path in sight We stand alone, we stand apart, we stand with heavy heart The despair, the fear, as our homeland disappears I am nothing, I am numb, as my […]
Poetry
Our Flag/Մեր դրօշակը
For 131 years our flag has flown high. Our spirit Our determination Our resilience. The shovel, pen, sword, and fist – the blood of our martyrs and heroes. The Sultan, the Ottomans, the Turks, the […]
Poetry
A Letter to Lost Armenians
My grandpa’s name was Mourad, He never told me what he thought, At least not about the mutual fight, That he and I both fought. He didn’t tell me he was proud, And I’m not […]
Literary Corner
From the Shore
From my position on the shore, I saw the sea of rolling tides Filled with the incarnadine gore That seeped through a murdered seal’s hide. The abrupt cessation of life At the hands of […]
Literary Corner
Poet and professor Celeste Nazeli Snowber presents The Marrow of Longing
A descendant of Armenian genocide survivors, Celeste Nazeli Snowber explores the relationship between longing, belonging and identity in her third book of poetry. With The Marrow of Longing, Snowber uncovers universal themes as she traces […]
Literary Corner
An Armenian Lament
Prelude A son, a grandson, Of this nation My nation Where I live Only in my heart Only in my soul. There was or was not… No, for sure there was A city, a town, […]