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William Michaelian
William Michaelian, (born May 20, 1956) is an Armenian-American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. Born in Dinuba, California, a small town southeast of Fresno, Michaelian grew up on his family's farm.〔"A Map of My Heart." ''Ararat'', Winter 2001.〕 He has lived in Salem, Oregon, since 1987. His stories, poems, and drawings have appeared in literary periodicals in the United States and Armenia; his work has been performed on Armenian National Radio.〔''The Armenian Mirror-Spectator'', 5 January 2002.〕 His fiction and poetry have appeared in ''Ararat'' (New York), a quarterly journal devoted to literary and historical work on Armenian subjects. He is also a contributor to the multilingual Armenian Poetry Project, curated and produced in New York by Lola Koundakjian. In 2003, he launched an open online literary dialogue, "The Conversation Continues", with John Berbrich, publisher and editor of the small press literary quarterly, ''Barbaric Yawp'' (Russell, New York).
==Assessment==
Michaelian's work has been compared by reviewers to that of Walt Whitman, James Thurber, Samuel Beckett, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Analysis of contemporary human behavior, sympathy for the downtrodden, humor, satire, and a strong anti-war sentiment are hallmarks of his work. Much of his poetry and prose bears a lyrical, rhythmic quality; in many pieces, its visual appearance adds to this effect.〔Bedikian, Lory. ''Winter Poems'' and ''Another Song I Know'', reviewed in ''The Armenian Reporter'', 2008-26-1.〕 Other influences include Richard Brautigan, Thomas Wolfe, Guy de Maupassant, and William Saroyan,〔Bulger, Jason (2007). ''Cosmopsis Quarterly'', Fall 2007.〕 the author's contemporary and grandmother's first cousin.
Michaelian has also published numerous drawings. Most are portraits of imaginary people with exaggerated emphasis placed on the eyes, which draw attention and help convey a range of emotion. A progressional study of the drawings on Michaelian's website reveals that his subjects have taken on a more sorrowful or troubled aspect over time. This is especially evident in the pencil drawings that accompany his ''Songs and Letters'', a mostly autobiographical collection of poetry and prose he began in 2005.
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