Ara Arzumanian

Ara Arzumanian was born in Tehran, Iran and grew up in Glendale, California. He has a B.A. in English from the University of California in Irvine. He was a founding member and Editor-in-Chief of Usanogh Periodical of Armenian Students until 2001. He works with at-risk youth in the city of Glendale and writes poems and short stories in English.

Articles

There Are Men Standing Near The Entrance

They’ll stand there forever, you know, if we let them There are men standing there with knives and guns A rope Waiting for someone like me to walk by To walk proudly by, boisterously, confidently by I decide to oblige them I walk by I carry a knife and a gun and a rope with me They watch me walk by. They grind their teeth, they snarl, they watch me walk by My boots have heels, I seem taller I’ve a large dog with me....

The Armenian Speaks Of Mountains

I’ve known mountains I set my sheep to graze on a hillside and climbed myself high to see what there was. I’ve once decided and told my whole family that I should climb as high as one man could to the peak of Sis and came back home not having reached the summit. I’ve built my home near a field below a slope afoot the breast of a mountain range called Ara....