Topic: poetry

By Anush Aslibekyan YEREVAN — On October 10, a special academic conference dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the birth of the renowned poet Razmik Davoyan was held through the[...]

The final installment of the International Armenian Literary Alliance’s Literary Lights 2025 reading series features Tenny Arlen’s posthumous poetry collection To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here? Jesse Arlen, co-translator of[...]

BELMONT, Mass. — The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) will host an in-person event with Dr. Peter Balakian, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, titled “From[...]

Join the International Armenian Literary Alliance for their fifth annual Emerging Writers Showcase — a reading that highlights the work of rising Armenian writers — hosted by Shahé Mankerian, IALA’s[...]

NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian’s new book of poems, New York Trilogy, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press. In inventive, elliptical language,[...]

The IALA Los Angeles Chapter presents a literary evening of writers in celebration of Aida Zilelian’s debut chapbook release DISSONANCE. The event hosted by the Lusanet Collective, featuring Lory Bedikian,[...]

PASADENA, Calif. — On Saturday, May 31, the Tekeyan Cultural Association Metro Los Angeles Chapter participated in Armenian Cultural Day at the Pasadena Public Library – Lamanda Park Branch. The[...]

During a time of global upheaval, war, genocide, and countless national crises and political injustices, writing can give us a means to express, document, defy, and/or attempt to make sense[...]

The International Armenian Literary Alliance’s May edition of their Literary Lights 2025 reading series will feature Gregory Djanikian, award-winning author of Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems, in conversation with[...]

What is home to Armenians in literature? Which Armenians, you may ask? How does the idea of homeland manifest in the latest English-language literary anthology of Armenian writing? Where can[...]