Topic: poetry

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[...]

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[...]