LA-Lit 1: Ara Shirinyan
LA-Lit interviewed Ara Shirinyan in late August 2005.
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LA-Lit 1 Part a
LA-Lit 1 Part b
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Ara Shirinyan was born in 1977 in, what was then, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia. Since 1987, he has lived in Los Angeles, where he writes and is editor of Make Now Press. His first book Syria Is in the World was recently published by Palm Press, and Your Country Is Great is forthcoming from Future Poem Books. With the group Godzik Pink, he released two CDs (Es Em, Ekel Em and Black Broccoli) on Kill Rock Stars/5rc. With Joseph Mosconi and Teresa Carmody, he co-curates The Last Sunday Reading Series at the Smell in Los Angeles (an all ages punk/art rock club that he helped co-found in 1997 and briefly ran for a year). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Word Ways, UBUWEB, Greetings, Trepan, Combo, Area Sneaks, Tuli & Savu among others.
These files were originally Podcast on January 3 & 4, 2006.
