Shushanik Kurghinian, the almost forgotten, revolutionary prose and poetry writer from Alexandrapol (present-day Gyumri, Armenia), according to noted literary critic Marc Nishanian, “one of the greatest writers from the eastern[...]
The relevance of Zabel Yessayan’s words to the events unfolding in the homeland today is startling. Indeed, it is impossible to read Yessayan without the painful awareness of the precariousness[...]
small pieces (Dalkey Archive Press, 2023) is truth distilled to its purest essence. Through conversations, spoken and unspoken, over distance and in time, two women, a writer and an artist,[...]
“So I’m not crazy? Or if I am, I’m not alone.” “That last part looks more like it.” The Gray House Mariam Petrosyan’s The Gray House (amazon crossing, 2017) opens[...]
The collective of dynamic young artists, based in Brooklyn, New York, who in 2018 initiated The Armenian Creatives, to create a community of support, are alive and well. Ever since[...]
“This is it, Iskender, efendi. The end,” Aram Bohjalian, an old friend of the Agha Boghos family, tells his buddy as the Turks capture the Armenian quarter in Ourfa and[...]
The world of Armenian literature is all the richer for the compilation of renowned poet Vahe-Vahian’s private letters, published posthumously in 2012, under the title The Heart of the Poet.[...]
PASADENA, Calif. — I cannot think of anything more challenging than teaching Armenian language and culture to students in a non-Armenian public school setting. Nonetheless, that is precisely what the[...]
ALTADENA, Calif. — There was nothing typical about the literary and musical program presented at the Tekeyan Cultural Association’s Beshgeturian Center in Altadena, dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the[...]
“My grandmother/and great-aunt . . . didn’t go to church/because they had survived the genocide,” writes Arda Collins in “Easter,” a poem in Star Lake (The Song Cave, 2022), Collins’s[...]
A “new unspoiled unchained order,” where the extraordinarily gifted are free to live in their own “solitude,” and not in an “isolation” imposed on them by the “chains” of the[...]
