Alina Gregorian is an artist, poet, designer, and coder. She curated and appeared in the exhibition Talk to me in Parsley and Tambourines: Artists of the Armenian Diaspora (Babycastles in New York), and her work has appeared in Roadmaps (AGBU Headquarters in Yerevan, Armenia). She 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, Brooklyn Poets Anthology, among other publications. Alina graduated with a degree in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design.
Flags for Adjectives Link to PDFFlags for Adjectives (DIEZ, 2017) consists of dialogue poems — poems written with anonymous characters who speak to each other. I wanted to create little plays, but with characters who were not named. Sometimes they have arguments with each other, and often they are playfully gibbering. Whenever I read poems from this chapbook at a venue, I asked someone from the audience to read the second voice with me, thus creating a feeling of surprise, newness, and mystery.
Category poetry