Hasmik Hakobyan | Linguistic realization of modern armenian poetry
The diversity of world orders, the thematic-structural elements,the variety of solution of primary problems make the modern poetry significant. Each type of poetry puts its world order and the language of thinking. The words become conventional signs of reality. So what is the poetic reality? What is the function of poetic word? Different poetic directions...
Nerses Atabekyan | Selected Poems
SINKING ECHO Lads, I leave you for a while to see you happy and always together, the pronoun WE has still been personal but for other life no longer. Rain is some distilled water merely, forest is only a vital verdure, every God day is unheired – undying like a distilled baby in a vial....
Violet Grigoryan | Unfinished Ode: Upon the Clitoris
Clit-clit-clitoris mine, my itty-bitty fidgeter, my voiceless little stammerer, my tongueless little twitterer, my curly-haired baby bull, my gluttonous little gullet, my rosy-pink-lipped cuntlet, my windowless little chamber, my stuttering baby gurgler, my pretty little floater,
Diana Der-Hovanessian | Selected Poems
THANKSGIVING “Love is not all. It is not food nor drink.” Edna St. Vincent Millay Nor is food love, but palate’s sport alone. Even with ceremony, without toast or vow, it is just means of keeping flesh on bone. But table and altar are confused somehow. We substitute our food, again, again for rites of...
International Poetry Festival in Armenia
The Writers’ Union of Armenia hosted their first International Poetry Festival in Yerevan within the frame of the Yerevan World Book Capital 2012. Over 50 distinguished poets from Armenia, Artsakh, Canada, Australia, the Middle East, and European and CIS countries participated in this festival.
Avetik Isahakyan | Selected Poems
I Can See Them In the quiet dusk I see it. The thin smoke rising from my father’s house. Outside the willows sway. And in dark corners invisible crickets start their song. I can see my mother in that lamplight. Her grandchild climbs into her lap to sleep. And as she rocks my baby I...
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