ALINA GREGORIAN

Alina Gregorian is an Armenian American artist, poet, and designer. Themes in her work include diaspora, language, dreams, and creating spaces where people can gather. With Cleo Abrahamian, Alina co-created Yeraz, an archive for reimagining SWANA rituals. She curated and appeared in the exhibition Talk to me in Parsley and Tambourines: Artists of the Armenian Diaspora (Babycastles in New York) and is the author of two chapbooks — Navigational Clouds, (Monk Books) and Flags for Adjectives, (Diez). Her poetry can be found in Boston Review, BOMB Magazine, and Brooklyn Poets Anthology, among other publications. She writes a monthly essay on Substack. Alina graduated with a degree in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design.

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Coffee Poetics

Coffee Poetics stems from an event organized at Storm Books & Candy in Brooklyn, NY. In July 2024, we invited people to join us for an Armenian coffee cup reading — each guest was served a cup of Armenian coffee, and after drinking the coffee, Anahit Pogosian performed a reading of the symbols from the coffee grinds inside the cup. The cups were photographed by Nadia Bedj, and the symbols are woven into poems by Alina for our upcoming book. The proceeds from the event went to Artsakh via All For Armenia.

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design, poetry