I GAVE MY HEART TO A SIMPLE CHORD

Dog Days Poetry Workshop with Arminé Iknadossian

Saturday, August 3

4-7pm

Abril Book in Glendale, California

On the first Saturday of every month, Arminé Iknadossian runs a dynamic and for-all-levels generative writing workshop in the beautiful art gallery of Abril Books. This month, we will read and write poems about summer, especially poems with dogs in them. Yes, dogs. You would be surprised how many poems include dogs. Poets love…

South Florida Poetry Journal December 2018 Interview

1     Which of your poems would be a good bribe to get out of a traffic ticket? 

I guess the poem I would choose would be “United States of Love” published in the Alabama Literary Review a few years back. In this poem, I imagine a world driven by love instead of the punitive.

2     You are to give a presentation on a pre-20th century poet. Whom do you choose and why?

Since many folks…

Thank you to Linda Ravenswood and The Los Angeles Press for publishing Pre-History, a poem that will appear in my debut collection, All That Wasted Fruit, coming soon from Main Street Rag Press.

via Pre-History

Four Poems in Lullaby of Teeth: An Anthology of Southern California Poetry

Two Poems in Cultural Weekly

Kid Napping

I have 30 minutes before the children awake, wrinkled thumbs soaked, eyes small with sleep. I sit under one of California’s oldest oak trees with the video monitors next to me. I lift a cigarette to my lips and digress to the smell of my mother’s hair as she lifts me, wet with tears and urine, tangled in soaked sheets and blankets. Not even two, I was left asleep. My parents walked over

Three poems featured in the San Diego Reader!

The sun has an orgasm across the valley https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/jul/12/poetry-sun-has-orgasm-across-valley/#

July 12, 2017

Thank you to Life and Legends for publishing “The Hollow Women”

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The Hollow Women

“Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow” (T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men) A.

We are the hollow women. We are the stuff men leave behind. Laden with ill-begotten parcels, our voices crack the firmament like spider webs. We are quite mysterious as we digress from the conversation, return to…

“A History of Tears” in Entropy Magazine

This poem was written using words generated by Terry Wolverton through fevered writing. My comments on the process of writing the poem appear below the poem. 

“The Hollow Women” as published in Life and Legends (5th Edition)

Read my poem “The Hollow Women”http://lifeandlegends.com/armine-iknadossian/ published in the very special edition: From the Cradle of Civilization: Contemporary Arabic Poetry

Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Robbi Nesterand the rest of the Life and Legends editorial team need an award! They deserve much thanks and hurrahs for their work with Arab writers from around the world. Read my piece “The Hollow…

Four Poems in Angels Flight • literary west

I am thrilled to announce some good news in my little life. Thank you to Michele Raphael, David Lott and Sherilyn Lee for entrusting me with the associate poetry editor position at AFLW. I hope to learn a lot from these brilliant humans. Here are some of my poems for you to check out on the last day of Black History Month.