Tatevik Ayvazyan (@tatevik.bsky.social)

Wasafiri 120: Armenia(n)s - Elevation Poetry Showcase To celebrate the publication of Wasafiri 120: Armenia(n)s – Elevation, our guest co-editors Tatevik Ayvazyan and Naneh V Hovhannisyan have curated an exclusive online poetry showcase for the Wasafiri website. Read it here: https://www.wasafiri.org/content/wasafiri-120-poetry-showcase/ PLUS, we’re excited to present here two readings from the showcase: ‘Artsakh,’, by Perla Kantarjian and ‘Այնթապ | Antap’ by Tenny Arlen (read by her brother, Jesse Arlen). Perla Kantarjian is an award-winning Lebanese-Armenian poet, editor, and journalist with writings in 35+ publications including The Rumpus, Magma, Electric Literature, The Poetry Society, AMBIT, Black Warrior Review, and others. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and her website is perlakantarjian.com. Tenny Arlen (B.A., UCLA 2013) was an author of Armenian and English poetry. Her debut book of poetry, To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here? (Yerevan: ARI Press, 2021) was published posthumously and is one of the first books of creative literature written in Armenian by an American-born author. She died in a car accident in 2015 before beginning her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her work is read here – in the English and Armenian – by her brother and translator, Jesse S Arlen. https://bit.ly/4jTgE1s