Topic: poetry
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[...]
Join us for the launch of our reading series, Literary Lights 2025, featuring Wasafiri Magazine’s special “Armenia(n)s – Elevation” issue editors and contributors. Editors Tatevik Ayvazyan and Naneh Hovhannisyan will be[...]
FRANKFURT — The annual Frankfurt Book Fair represents a cultural highpoint in Germany, as authors, publishers, booksellers, literary agents, and booklovers from around the world gather to honor one country’s[...]
The persona in Lory Bedikian’s recently published collection of poems, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), is angry at the world that “has/the nerve to move us from room[...]
Though there has always been a connection between songwriting and literature, the consideration of the former as the latter still comes as a surprise to some. In his acceptance speech[...]
LOS ANGELES — The International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA), in partnership with h-pem, announces the fourth annual Young Armenian Poets Awards in honor of Tamar Asadourian, a contest for exceptional[...]
YEREVAN/PATZCUARO, MICHOACAN, MEXICO — Vatche Geuvdjelian (born 1956, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is a painter and poet, who divides his time between Canada and Mexico. In 1978, he moved to Ontario,[...]
The International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA), the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center are pleased to invite you to their[...]
April traditionally marks the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. With the recent ethnic cleansing of Artsakh Armenians in September 2023 repeating a pattern of genocide, these Armenian writers,[...]