Prof. Michael E. Stone

Michael Stone is Professor of Armenian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published poetry in Ararat, Avocet, Byline Magazine, Hazmat Review, King Log, Mandrake Poetry Review, Ruah, White Heron, ARC, and Voices Anthology. He also translates medieval Armenian poetry into English and has published translations in Ararat, Sion and St. Nersess Theological Review. He is at present finalizing an English translation of the medieval biblical epic Adamgirk’ by Arak’el of Siwnik’. In addition to poetry he has published numerous scholarly books and articles on Armenian studies.

Articles

The Plane To Yerevan

In Vienna once an empire’s capital, Nazism’s home of Strauss and of strudel, At the airport two young, black-haired, bearded rich boys, a priest with wife and children, some families loaded with parcels, And we two otars, sit Waiting for a plane To Yerevan.

The News In Istambul

Watching the news in Istanbul I understand nothing; But the weather forecast is easier. Temperatures and winds in different towns, Names from all the centuries, From all the human layers, Of which the Turks are top. Mostly, if I know them, It is in their old forms: Sinope and Trebizond and Ephesus, Kars and Van and Erzerum. Greece on the west, Armenia on the east. And Constantimople straddling the two continents....