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Aram Saroyan

Aram Saroyan is the author of Still Night in L.A.: A Detective Novel and many other books of prose and poetry. His Complete Minimal Poems received the 2008 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. His memoir Before I Forget was published in 2026.

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In Memory of Lucy

Growing up amid glamour, volatility, and the gravitational pull of famous parents.

interior of the los angeles central library’s rotunda, with frescoed walls and a glowing art deco chandelier suspended from a mosaic tiled dome.

Poetry: ‘Poem’

A 1964 bus layover leads Aram Saroyan into the L.A. Public Library and Robert Duncan’s pages, where a remembered detour becomes a philosophy of making—and being made by—choice.