Lola Koundakjian’s Poetry transcends
- A selection of Lola Koundakjian's poetry published in English and Spanish
- Nueva York Poetry Review will feature Armenian poets throughout 2021
On the one-year anniversary of the publication of her poetry collection The Moon in the Cusp of My Hand, the Nueva York Poetry Review has published a selection of Lola Koundakjian’s poems in English and Spanish to kick off Nueva’s series to feature Armenian poets throughout 2021. This partnership between Nueva and Koundakjian is a testament to Koundakjian’s career championing Armenian poets. Nueva will feature Shahé Mankerian in February and Lory Bedikian in March. Stay tuned to the Nueva’s website for upcoming Armenian poets.
The Moon in the Cusp of My Hand is Koundakjian’s third volume of poetry. Her poems have appeared in journals and websites such as: alpialdelapalabra, Armenian Poetry Project, The Literary Groong, Blood and Thunder, Crime Poetry Weekly, Poetas Siglo XXI, and Mediterranean Poetry.
When you and I
are in the ground,
this will be
a different world.
We will be in the
ultimate sacred space —
not the temporary one
I have today
From ‘Sacro Speco’
Her first volume of poetry, The Accidental Observer, was published in 2011. Her second manuscript, Advice to a Poet, was a finalist in Armenia’s Orange Book Prize in 2012, and was published in a trilingual edition by Amotape Libros in Lima, Peru in 2014.