’20TH CENTURY POETRY BY ARMENIAN WOMEN’
Literature
Azg/arm
19 July 05
The Armenian Mirror Spectator weekly informed that the International
Association of Armenian Women has recently published “Another Voice.
20th Century Poetry by Armenian Women” collection in Boston. The
poems were translated and edited by Diana Ter-Hovhannisian. The
collection includes about 200 poems by 65 poets working in Paris,
Los Angeles, Tehran, Istanbul, Beirut, Buenos Aires and Armenia.
Ter-Hovhannisian stated in the preface that the first poems by the
Armenian women were written in the 8th century. She added that “there
had been poems and songs written in the pre-Christian period as well,
but they were not preserved.”
Diana Ter-Hovhannisian is the chairwoman of the New England Poetry
Club. There she initiated the poetry prize after Daniel Varouzhan.
Mrs. Ter-Hovhannisian is the author of 22 books, including “How to
Chose One’s Past,” “The Burning Glass,” “About the Time” and “The
New Year Day for You.”
By Hakob Tsulikian