Poetry

Special to the Armenian Weekly By Aris Janigian In 2011, writer and director Christopher Atamian’s pristine translation of Nigoghos Sarafian’s The…

The Verbs of Genocide Categorized Stereotyped Stigmatised Marginalized Disenfranchised Deprived Victimized Robbed Ghettoised Deported Stripped Raped Tortured Murdered Mutilated Dismembered…

I opened the window to dawn, And in rushed cold, Crisp Lori mountain air. A wolf Prancing on newly fallen…

Translated by Diana Der-Hovanessian Misak Medzarents was born in Akn in 1888 and died of tuberculosis at 22. He and…

You do have eyes but do not see you have a mouth but do not taste you have two ears…

ETERNAL LOVE Love was eternal— An Eternity of mere months… And now, memories frolicking A few fortnights in the backyard…

The Dadeek, grandmother of the clan— Still dressed in the old ways, The subservient ways, In the days when her…

On a summer day in this ancient land where a pagan sun once reigned supreme in a merciless encounter between…

The other day A laptop won me In a raffle Until then My lap had favored Softer bottoms And carrot-tops…

Earthworms glide around crocuses, In and out Of soil black and soft, Wet with night’s rain And morning’s dew. Ants…