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
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.