Anthologies

  • Anthology - Multilingual, the Americas Poetry Festival of New York, Artepoética, October 2023
  • Tuesday Night Live: A gathering of Curly’s Poets
  • CAPITALS a poetry anthology on the capital cities of Abhay Kumar (Bloomsbury 2017), ISBN-10: 9386141116
  • Anthology - Multilingual, the Americas Poetry Festival of New York, Artepoética, October 2016
  • 100 New York Calligraphers, by Cynthia M Dantzic, 2015, Schiffer Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-076434898
  • Poems for The Hazara, 2014, Kabul Press
  • Naji Naaman’s Literary Prizes, 2014, Beirut, Lebanon
  • Poems for Mamilla, An Otherworld Press Pamphlet, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9576854-1-3
  • Fornix, Number 12, 2013, Lima, Peru
  • The 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly, Vol. 1, 2011-2012, Edited by Gerald So. For the Amazon Kindle Edition, access here, or the Barnes and Noble Nook edition.
  • ԳՐԱԿԱՆ ՍՓՅՈՒՐՔ (Kragan Spiurk - Literary Diaspora) Number 1, published 2010 in Armenia. Excerpts can be found here.Lola's work also appears in 9th edition, representing Armenian poems published in Horison weekly's literary section
  • Anthology, Memoria del XX Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellin, 2010, Colombia
  • Articles, 1990 - current

  • Armenian International Magazine, California, USA; Science and Technology correspondent
  • Armenian Weekly, Boston, USA, Arts and Culture articles
  • Armenian Reporter, USA, interviews with prominent figures in arts and culture
  • Books

  • The Accidental Observer<,2011, ISBN 978-0-578-06618-9
  • Advice to a Poet, finalist, Orange Book Prize, Armenia in 2012. Trilingual edition: ISBN 978-612-46469-7-3. November 2014, Amotape Libros, Lima, Peru.Click here to see an excerpt of the manuscript
  • Advice to a Poet, trilingual edition, US edition, ISBN 978-1-312-94683-5, 2015.
  • The Moon in the Cusp of my Hand (Nueva York Poetry Press, 2020)
  • Հատընտիր - Armenian Chapbook (2020)
  • Digital Story Telling

  • Hiroshima (2010). Clip available at http://www.lolakoundakjian.com/HIROSHIMA.mov
  • Three Armenian Artists (2012) - broadcast on Feb 25, 2012, with Armenian introduction on Voices of Armenians TV show
  • Editorial

  • Founding editor,Journal of Armenian Association of Information Professionals (1994-1997)
  • Editorial Board member, Ararat Literary Quarterly (1995- 2012)
  • Poetry Editor,Ararat Online (2010 - 2012)
  • Curator and Producer, Armenian Poetry Project, 2006-Present
  • Co-editor, Rattapallax, Poems about Armenia, 2012
  • Grants and awards

  • 2014 Naji Namaan Literary Prizes, Creativity category
  • 2012 NoMAA Grantee, Literary Arts
  • 2011 NoMAA Grantee, Literary Arts
  • 2011 Mabel Fenner Scholarship
  • Columbia University, Zohrab Fellow

  • Recordings

  • World Poetry Movement, World Without Walls reading Feb 15 2019 in New York
  • The Power of Women in Armenian Art, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWo4xpK26r4 with Zulal a capella group, at the BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, April 10, 2018
  • Tribute to poet Zareh Khrakouni http://www.lolakoundakjian.com/RSS/Khrakhouni.mp4 (video clip from newscast)- December 2016
  • ԿԵԱՆՔ/LIFE - Live recording of the poem, http://www.lolakoundakjian.com/Koundakjian-Andonian.mp3 followed by Kevork Andonian’s Lament, performed by the Zvartnots String Quartet. New York City, June 2013. Recorded by Sig Rosen.
  • Text and video of the poem OFF OCEAN PARKWAY, LONG ISLAND, published by Poems on Crime, may be accessed here. Originally published in 2012, the poem was featured in 5-22‘s website during poetry month in 2016. http://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2016/04/day-7-off-ocean-parkway-long-island-by.html
  • Sunday Best Reading Series, March 4, 2012. The recording may be accessed on the WHFR website here. http://whfr.org/shows/sunday-best-reading-series-2012-03-07-0800PM/
  • Above the Bridge reading series, at the Ceres Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan. September 2011. http://www.lolakoundakjian.com/RSS/CeresGallery_Lola.mp3
  • Sunday Best Reading Series, March 6, 2011. Will MacAdams, Christine Toy Johnson and Lola Koundakjian (click to hear a portion of the one hour broadcast). http://www.lolakoundakjian.com/RSS/Sunday_Best_2011.mp3
  • Washington Heights Free Radio interview, airtime February 2011. http://www.lolakoundakjian.com/RSS/March_2011_WHFR.mp3
  • Above the Bridge series, recorded live, February 2011. Reading “She sent it with love”. http://www.lolakoundakjian.com/RSS/20110203_Above_the_Bridge_Lola_Koundakjian2
  • Above the Bridge series, recorded live, February 2011. Reading “Speaking in the Past”. http://www.lolakoundakjian.com/RSS/20110203_Above_the_Bridge_Lola_Koundakjian.mp3
  • Manhattan Times interview, June 2010, after the Annual Uptown Arts Stroll event “Writing Across our Cultures”. http://www.lolakoundakjian.com/RSS/Manhattan.mp3
  • Bowery Poetry Club, April 2010: “Les poètes” http://www.lolakoundakjian.com/RSS/LK_LP.mp3
  • Video clip from the XX Festival Internacional de Poesía in Medellín, Colombia, Summer 2010.

    Interviews

  • Resonance FM Constructive Forces program
  • Civilnet TV interview - February 2015
  • WFHR radio WHFR.org (radio)
  • Azad-Hye online journal Azad-Hye
  • Azk AM Azk.am
  • Horizon (Montreal, Canada) 2019 interview by Vrej-Armen Artinian
  • Armenian Mirror-Spectator Armenian Mirror-Spectator,Boston MA
  • Armenian Reporter 2007 interview by Paul Chaderjian
  • Tenor de Brumas interview, Peru
  • The Alignist
  • Memberships (1990-Current)   

  • International Armenian Literary Alliance, est. 2020, Board of Directors member
  • Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes
  • PEN USA, New York
  • Poets House, New York
  • Poets and Writers, USA
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  • World Poetry Movement, Medellín, Colombia
  • Board Member, Armenian Center, Columbia University, USA, (2010-13)
  • Bloom Reading Series, Hudson VIew Gardens, New York, NY, (2013-2018)
  • Poetry (print and online)

  • Colophons,and, Streets of Paradise, two Armenian prose poems were translated via English to Hungarian by Noémi László and appeared in the online journal 1749
  • Pidgeons/Աղաւնիները, a poem in Armenian published in Horizon Weekly Literary Supplement August 2021 -- with a translation to Turkish and video on Youtube
  • And Then, print journal (2018)
  • Whiskey Barpoem in Armenian, Horizon Weekly, Literary Supplement, December 2018
  • Geometries Poems and Illuminations series. March 2018
  • Colophon poem in Armenian, Յիշատակարան, Հորիզոն Գրական, յունուար 2018
  • Clotho Lacesis and Atropos One online journal (Jacar Press)
  • Memories, published in Blood and Thunder, 2017, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.
  • A selection of poems translated to Italian Atelier Poésie, (Switzerland) published in 2016
  • Imaginary Correspondence/ԵՐԵՒԱԿԱՅԱԿԱՆ ՆԱՄԱԿԱՆԻ Armenian Weekly, March 2016
  • Fog/Մարախուղ , Hairenik, March 2016
  • Moods in 2 Horatio, Fall 2015/li>
  • In Search of Rilke at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, published in Naugatuck River Review, Summer 2014, issue 12
  • A la busca de Rilke en el Museo Metropolitano de Arte, Traducción del inglés de Benjamín Valdivia Luvina No 79, Verano 2015 (la revista literaria de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.
  • Awakening Big City Lit, Fall 2013 / Spring 2014
  • Café Reggio, Enchanted Verse, Calcutta, India, Winter 2013
  • The Fly, Horizon Weekly, December 2013, Montreal, Canada
  • A trip to EgyptMizna, December 2012
  • The cadavers off Ocean Parkway, Long Island, Poetic Justice Press, March 2012
  • At Holy Cross, Ararat, Fall 2011
  • Featured poet, Pakin, September 2009, Beirut, Lebanon.
  • My New Bookcases will arrive in a week, Armenian Weekly, December 2008
  • Three Cups of Heaven, Armenian Weekly, October 2007
  • Recordings (disenbodied voice)

  • Solemnity.Poets voices in a wall sound sculpture with video projection, 2010. Exhibited at Pratt Institute, New York, part of “A Blind Dates Project” curated by Neery Melkonian and Defne Ayas.
  • Translations

  • Works by 19th-20th century Armenian poets, including Zahrad and Irma Adjemian, have been translated for the the Armenian Poetry Project and have consequently appeared in Dora Sakayan’s Western Armenian for the English-speaking world Yerevan State University Press, 2012
  • Websites mentioning Lola's work

  • alpialdelapalabra Argentina
  • Armenian Poetry Project New York City
  • Literary GROONG University of Southern California
  • Mediterranean poetry, 2010 Sweden
  • UniVerse, Chicago
  • Articles and academic conference publications

  • In Search of a Standard Armenian Keyboard, Armenian International Magazine, March 1991. Reprinted in Newsletter No 15 of the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, the Netherlands, October 1991.
  • Giving the Gift of Life: Bone Marrow Transplants among Armenians, Armenian International Magazine<, July, 1991
  • Computers in Armenian Studies: Information Retrieval, Storage and Archiving.  Armenian perspectives: 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, edited by Nicholas Awde, 1993
  • CD-ROM TECHNOLOGY: Possible Applications in Armenian Philology. Computers in Armenian Philology, Yerevan, Armenia, 1993
  • Armenians in Cyberspace: CD-ROMS vs. On-Line. The Society for Armenian Studies, 1995 (JSAS Volume 6)
  • Preserving the Written Word: Computer Aided Archiving.VIIth General Assembly of the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 1996.
  • CD-ROM technology in Armenian Philology,Journal of the Society of Armenian Studies, Volume 9, 1999.