2021 Young Armenian Poets Awards Winners
Congratulations to the winners of IALA’s inaugural Young Armenian Poets Awards, whose work has been published on h-pem!
The winners are listed in alphabetical order:
- Sarkis Anthony Antonyan: “I Meet the Gravedigger Burying a Soldier from Artsakh”
- Sofia Demirdjian-Lara: “I See You in the Jacarandas”
- Lucine Ekizian: “Go Light on the Sweetness”
- Natalie Abadjian: “o White” (Honorable mention)
“If poetry can reveal the heart of a people, then poetry written by some of the youngest amongst us can present that heart in the most honest and unadulterated way,” wrote Alan Semerdjian, a IALA advisory board member and the director of the contest.
Click the links above to read the winning poems on h-pem, with commentary from our judges.
A special thanks to our judges Gregory Djanikian, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Raffi Wartanian.