
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On a warm sunny day In beautiful and Peaceful Yerevan Today and the sky is So blue and sun It’s so bright And the little birds are Singing so passionately In the warm Gyumri sunlight […]
The International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) has announced the recipients of its second Young Armenian Poets Awards. Congratulations to poets Ani Apresyan, Juliette Hagobian and Taleen Sahakian; their winning poems have been published in h-pem […]
When the Devil came to fight, You did not listen to our cries, Shrugged shoulders you lived on. And here we are… When our bodies were set ablaze, Mutilated, raped, and torn apart. You turned […]
It’s time to plan, it’s time to dream. It’s time to tell tales in colors that lead home. So: Black for horse and mountain, Brown for soil and trunk, Green for leaf and valley, Yellow […]
In a land south of the Black Sea, we lived together in peace for over a thousand years. Then darkness engulfed us, and life became a ghastly nightmare. Reduced to second-class subjects, we fell prey […]
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