Alina Gregorian is an Armenian American artist, poet, and designer currently living in Oslo, Norway. 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