Queer Fish by Sarah Giragosian
Published in 2017, Queer Fish by Sarah Giragosian won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize. Sarah Giragosian is a poet and critic living in Schenectady, NY. She is the author of the…
Queer Armenian Literature: A Reading
In honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, the International Armenian Literary Alliance, with Hye-Phen Magazine and the Queer Armenian Library, will host a reading of Queer Armenian writers. On June 5th at 1…
sex poem by hrayr
hrayr publishes his poetry through Instagram. His poem Venus was recently published by the Hye-Phen Magazine. հրայր hrayr is a մտհայիչ western-armenian’ist տարօրինակված queer faggot empath երջանիկ hairy kinkster wiz ծաղկասէր flower…
Swan Song by Armen Davoudian
Published in 2020, Swan Song by Armen Davoudian won the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook Competition, as selected by Patrick Donnelly. Davoudian's poems and translations from Persian appear in AGNI, The Sewanee Review, The…
Journey to Tatev by Lillian Avedian
Published in 2021, Journey to Tatev by Lillian Avedian is the first [*] published collection of poetry by a poet who identifies as a Queer Armenian woman. Lillian Avedian is an Armenian-American…
Anamot Press
Anamot Press was set up in March 2020. Through the Poetry Streaming project, over 40 invited poets, publishers and writers shared queer experiences across borders and other stories on migration, ancestral grief, displacement, love and loss.
Bavakan
Beginning in 2013, Bavakan has been publishing their poetry through their eponymous blog Bavakan. Bavakan is a queer feminist activist living in Armenia.
You can read Bavakan’s poetry collection here.
Aracheener or “Firsts”
In honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, the International Armenian Literary Alliance, with Hye-Phen Magazine and the Queer Armenian Library, will host Aracheener, or “Firsts,” on June 12th at 1 pm Eastern. It…
The Hye-Phen Magazine
The Hye-Phen Magazine was founded in 2014 as an online magazine and global collective to connect queer-minded Armenian artists, scholars, writers, and amplify our under-spoken stories, issues, ideas, and visions of the future.
Yeghishe Charents: Poet of the Revolution
Published in 2003, Yeghishe Charents: Poet of the Revolution edited by Marc Nichanian is a collection of essays from the first international conference about a modern Armenian poet, Charents, held at a Western university.
Of note to this library are the essays The Armenian Counterculture That Never Was and Charents the Prophet by James R. Russell.