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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I think again of my self, at the dining room table, or squatting beneath, sketching my father, seated next to mother, crocheting, smoking or reading his Armenian newspaper, silently enduring his life, the puzzle of […]
Being alone means fear clouding everything My eyes feel heavy like I am heavily medicated Almost like they, as their own people, are pressured to stay open I am pressured to converse with my eyes, […]
I am sitting at the shore of Kınalı*. The Marmara Sea opens—serene and blue— I fling a rock into the sea. I pitch the rock—rings float on the Marmara— I pitch the rock—new rings form […]
In 2017, the Columbia Artists/Teachers (CA/T) program at Columbia University embarked on what may rightly be regarded as a pedagogical experiment: an online writing class that connected Masters in Writing candidates from Columbia University with […]
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