Showing posts with label JACQUELINE TCHAKALIAN. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Jacqueline Tchakalian: To Be Beheaded, Armenia, 1915


Jacqueline Derner Tchakalian, a visual artist and a poet, lives in Woodland Hills, CA. Her poems have appeared inEclipseSo to SpeakCalifornia QuarterlyWestward 4and other publications. She was a finalist in the 2010 Tennessee Williams Literary Poetry Contest and the 2007 Conflux Press Artists Book Contest. Previously, she was a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets Series and for the Los Angeles Poetry Festival. Her book, The Size of Our Bed, Red Hen Press, was published in 2015.
         For those who deny.

to be the beheader

      is to ignore
                           
      how deeply memories

      embed themselves           

      in tomorrow's 

            blood    


to be beheaded

      is to lose touch 

      source of thought

      water's web

      sight of blood

            running away


to be an observer

      on site    viewing photos

      watching film    willing or not

      is to be grateful you are not

      the victim    your blood

            recording everything


to be remembered

      victims' dried blood 

      must be washed 

      with clean hands 

      in memories' open

            baskets of language

This poem appeared in the July 2016 issue of Frogpondia.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Book event in Southern California

JACQUELINE TCHAKALIAN INVITES YOU
TO A PUBLICATION PARTY / READING OF HER BOOK

 THE SIZE OF OUR BED

RED HEN PRESS

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2015
8:00 PM

BEYOND BAROQUE LITERARY ARTS / CENTER
681 VENICE BLVD.
VENICE, CA 90291

WINE AND ARMENIAN MEZZA SERVED 
BEFORE AND AFTER THE READING

Sunday, September 06, 2015

Jacqueline Tchakalian's book tour in New York State

Jacqueline Tchakalian will be reading in New York state during the early part of September. 

Thursday, Sept. 10 - Astoria Bookshop - Astoria, New York - 7:30 PM (Featured reader with the Boundless Tales series )

Friday, Sept. 11 - Hudson Valley Writers' Center - Sleepy Hollow, New York - 7:30 PM - with Francine Maxime and Marion Brown

Sunday - Sept. 13 - The Bowery Poetry Club - New York, NY - 3:30 PM - Red Hen Event - with Mark Rozema, Sean Bernard, Tom Janikowski and Mac Gilvray

Sunday, February 09, 2014

JACQUELINE TCHAKALIAN: LISTENING TO LEONARD COHEN IS BETTER THAN….


It’s the slide in
   his voice – enticing
      to sublime – that

I ride, infused, under
   sleep’s cover of bare
      dreams: lips busy,

limbs tangled, faces
   blurred:  silent
      angels all,  

scuddering about. Thank
   you, Leonard.     
      I hear rumble

in your voice, cracks
   to slip through,
      kneel of your knees

as you kiss the night
   away and I slide in
      and out of reverie