Yerevan Café

Armenian News Network / Groong
September 5, 2009

⚠ This is an archival article originally published on September 5, 2009. Information may be outdated.

YEREVAN CAFE

By Michael E. Stone

A little park off the Prospekt, half of it is a cafe now – not unpleasant – and the rest, abandoned.

Mexican yuccas in tubs and cane garden furniture bound together with raffia, with round glass-topped tables, striving for a patio feeling, But unfinished.

We sit there dining on the toughest guinea fowl ever hatched and a cool wind blows through, from one end to the other, mixing the aroma of traffic on the Prospekt and of gas pumps at the back.

May 2009

Michael E. Stone

Author bio at time of publication

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.