Silva Zanoyan Merjanian is an internationally published poet residing in Southern California. She released the first volume of her poems Uncoil a Night in 2013 with all proceeds donated to Syrian Armenian Relief Fund. Some of the publications she’s been featured in are: Streetcake Magazine, Miracle-ezine, The Literary Groong, Mad Swirl, The Galway Review, The Artistic Muse, Poet’s Basement at Counterpunch.org, an international political newsletter, Le Mond N’est Pas Rond, The Oddity, Red Fez, Young Men’s Perspective volume 3, Munyori Literary journal, Ygdrasil, a Journal of the Poetic Arts. She is proud to be part of the Anthologies ‘The Art of Being Human- An Anthology of International Poetry’, volume 3 and 6. Sagittarius, The Inspired Heart, Editions 1 & 2, a collection of International Poetry by publisher Melinda Cochrane, and the Blue Max Review. Silva was shortlisted for the Fermoy International Poetry Competition 2012, and was invited to Ireland in August 2013 to introduce her book Uncoil a Night. She is invited again to read at the Fermoy festival 2014 in Ireland and at The Art to Be Human International Festival Literary Art and Music 2014 in Switzerland
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Over there all that happened (and didn’t happen) folded packed in mental mothballs stories fading with licked creases some reduced to softer versions
wonder why I preserve breaths forced through my lungs in those days stringed around the eye of a hurricane circling, demonic, nameless… shaking me till I’m shameless for a day
on nights with a collective sigh stinging and I can’t tell which tale will toll for me and which nocturnal howls to lift the dust through endless times to relive in slivers of a pink tip of my tongue afraid to bite a dreamt memory that it might hemorrhage bleed the sheets of night...