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.
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.
Princess Freak by Nancy Agabian
Published in 2000, Princess Freak by Nancy Agabian is the first [*] collection of poems and performance texts by a bisexual Armenian-American.
Agabian is the author of the memoir Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter, which was a finalist
A Poet in Washington Heights by Christopher Atamian
Published in 2017, A Poet in Washington Heights by Christopher Atamian is one of the first [*] poetry collections by a gay Italian-Armenian.
Atamian is a translator, writer, and director.
Vahan Tekeyan – Your Name
Vahan Tekeyan (1878-1945) was an Armenian poet, and to some he is known as the “Prince of Armenian Poetry.” He founded the magazine Shirak in 1905. His poetry collections include Hoger (1901),