For Shahé Mankerian, 2021 Is The Year
- History of Forgetfulness is Mankerian's first book of poetry
- Scheduled release date is October 2021
Mark you calendars. We just got word that Shahé Mankerian‘s first book of poetry History of Forgetfulness will be released in the U.K. this October. Fly on the Wall Press will publish Mankerian’s volume which has been a finalist at the Bibby First Book Competition, the Crab Orchard Poetry Open Competition, the Quercus Review Press Poetry Book Award, and the White Pine Press Prize.
We were the amber gods
that day; we turned away
from childhood, faced the smoke,
and screamed much louder than
the cat, the scorching rats,
the maggots fed on flesh;
and louder than the bomb
that stopped ticking at last.
– From ‘Books’
Mankerian, who is a IALA Board member, is the principal of St. Gregory Hovsepian School and the poetry co-director of Rockvale Review. Online publications, Border Crossing and Cahoodaloodaling, have nominated Shahé’s poems for the 2018 Best of the Net. Visible Poetry Project’s animation of Mankerian’s poem, “The Last Mosque,” premiered at the 2018 New York Poetry Festival. He received the 2017 Editors’ Prize from MARY: A Journal of New Writing.