The Moon in the Cusp of My Hand"

by Lola Koundakjian

Unknown Binding

About the author

Lola Koundakjian is the author of "The Accidental Observer" and the newly published "Advice to a Poet". She resides in New York City. She writes in Armenian, her mother tongue, and in English. She has organized evenings dedicated to the Dead Armenian Poets’ Society since her university days, and has curated the online Armenian Poetry Project since April 2006.

A regular reader in New York City and its tri-state area, she has appeared in four international poetry festivals: Medallín, Colombia in 2010; Lima, Peru, and Ramallah, West Bank in 2013; and Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada in 2014. Her translations of modern Istanbul poets have been included in Western Armenian language teaching manuals.

Lola has received two grants from the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance and the Naji Naaman Literary Prize in Lebanon.