Glad to have two poems posted on Verse-Virtual today for the October issue. Thanks to Editor Firestone Feinberg and the other fine poets in this issue.

http://www.verse-virtual.com/michael-minassian-2016-october.html

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Thanks to editors Dale Wisely and Laura M Kaminsky for including my poem “Thunderclouds” in the current issue of Right Hand Pointing. My poem is in section 2 (remember to scroll down using the hand icons).

http://www.righthandpointing.net/102-part-b

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Thanks to the editor at Silver Birch Press for posting my poem “Collateral Damage” as part of their WHEN I MOVED poetry and prose series.

Click here to see the poem:

https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/collateral-damage-poem-by-michael-minassian-when-i-moved-poetry-and-prose-series/

(note: the photo as part of the posting is from 1998)

My poem entitled “The Dogs of Persia” appears in the August 2016 issue of Verse-Virtual. Give it a look and be sure to check out the other fine poets. Thanks to editor Firestone Feinberg. This poem dedicated to my Uncle Jack Karapetian who wrote under the pen name Hakob Karapents first appeared in the Comstock Review in 2015.

Dogs of Persia

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Thanks to editor David Nilsen and the folks at Fourth and Sycamore for publishing three of my poems (August 2016).

*4th and Sycamore is no longer publishing

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Here is the “The Arboriculturist” – the title poem from my 2010 Chapbook of the same name.  Copies of the chapbook are available on Amazon:

The Arboriculturist

by Michael Minassian

THE ARBORICULTURIST

 
Wanting shade
I made a tree;

first, an old step
ladder, wooden
with one missing slat.

For leaves, I took
pages of books
I found discarded
next to the washing machine.

Pictures from magazines
stood for blossoms;
a torn photograph
I forgot to burn
hung like ripened fruit.

But what shall I use
for roots to anchor
my surrogate sapling
this artifice of bark,
sap, and heartwood?

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“I’ll call for pen and ink and write my mind.”
–William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part I, Act V Scene iii

Glad to announce my poem “Blue Bodies Litter the Beach” has been posted by Silver Birch Press as part of their Beach and Pool Memories Series. The poem also appeared in Verse-Virtual (Feb. 2016)

https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/blue-bodies-litter-the-beach-poem-by-michael-minassian-beach-and-pool-memories-poetry-and-prose-series/