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.
Flags for Adjectives Flags 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