Raffi Joe Wartanian awarded poet laureate fellowship from Academy of American Poets | October 2025 | UCLA Newsroom | Text
DaD Faculty Fellows Program Welcomes Second Cohort | October 2025 | UCLA Teaching & Learning Center | Text
Poet laureate fellows of Los Angeles bring change by Miranda Huang | October 2025 | USC Daily Trojan | Text
Academy of American Poets 2025 Poet Laureate Fellows | Summer 2025 | NPR Morning Edition Text & Audio | Literary Hub Text | The Academy of American Poets Text | Columbia University School of the Arts Text
JPL art collaboration creates ‘Blended Worlds’ | Spectrum News, November 2024 | Video
Blended Worlds: The Fusion of Art & Science at JPL | Artbound Season 15, Episode 2 on PBS, October 2024 | Video.
Life & Work with Raffi Wartanian | VoyageLA, May 2024 | Text.
Year in Review: City Tackles New Challenges in 2023, Glendale News-Press, January 2024 | Text.
Meet Raffi Joe Wartanian | Shoutout LA, October 2023 | Text.
Glendale’s First Poet Laureate by Brian Dunlap | Los Angeles Literature, May 2023 | Text.
Poet Laureate Aims to Be First of Many by Natalie Miranda | Glendale News-Press, April 2023 | Text.
Raffi Joe Wartanian Named Glendale’s First Poet Laureate | March 2023 | City of Glendale, California Text // Asbarez Text // Crescenta Valley Weekly Text // Massis Post Text // Public Radio of Armenia Text // The US Armenians Text // Columbia University School of the Arts Text
Writer, Musician, and Educator Raffi Wartanian Interview Ep. #91 | Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Teen G.E.N. Talks, November 2022 | Video & Podcast.
Meet an Armenian-American writer unlocking the depths of human experience | Namak Newsletter, October 2022 | Text.
An Epistolary Quest for Peace: Interview with Raffi Wartanian | Mashallah News, July 2021 | Text.
Letters for Peace publishes 54 letters between youth in Armenia and Azerbaijan | The Fulbright Program, Fulbrighter Snapshot Series, June 2020 | Text.
Video Premiere: Raffi Joe Wartanian, “Never Forever” by Henry Carrigan | Folk Alley, May 2020 | Text.
Raffi Wartanian’s “Critical Distance” Review by Emmett Lindner | taqs.im, March 2020 | Text.
On New Album Wartanian’s Experiment Goes the Distance by Taleen Babayan | The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, February 2020 | Text.
Raffi Wartanian’s ‘Critical Distance’ Takes You on a Musical Ride by Manuk Avedikyan | Asbarez, February 2020 | Text.
Writers in Collaboration: Traveling the Critical Distance to Where Legacy Lies by Rochelle Goldstein | Columbia University School of the Arts, December 2019 | Text.
Music is the Language of the Soul by Ara Topouzian | The Armenian Weekly, December 2019 | Text.
Raffi Joe Wartanian’s ‘Critical Distance’: An acoustic homage to the fretless by Lily Torosyan | h-pem, November 2019 | Text.
‘Critical Distance’: Raffi Joe Wartanian challenges himself to make more with less by Lily Torosyan | h-pem, November 2019 | Text.
The Storyteller and His Chords | Creative Armenia, September 2019 | Text.
The Truths We Hold by Jacqueline Sofia and Willow Belden | Out There, February 2019 | Podcast.
Trauma Stories as Resilience: Armenian and Irish National Identity in a Century of Remembering by Dr. Sevan Beukian & Dr. Rebecca Graff-McRae | Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, n. 8 (2018), pp. 157-188 | Text.
Current Student Raffi Joe Wartanian Launches Letters for Peace Project by Zoe Contros Kearl | Columbia University School of the Arts, September 2018 | Text.
Letters for Peace by Maria Titizian | EVN Report, June 2018 | Podcast.
"A Void": Coming to Terms with Genocide, 101 Years Later by Christopher Atamian | Huffington Post, December 2017 | Text.
These Two Lanes Could Take Us Anywhere by Jacqueline Sofia | Kerning Cultures, July 2017 | Podcast.
Armenian and Native American Unity and Survival Celebrated in Innovative Program | The Armenian Weekly, May 2017 | Text.
DAYS OF SOLIDARITY: Celebrating Armenian and Native American Survival | Native American Indian Commission of Los Angeles City/County | Text.
Yesterday's Collective Trauma and Armenian Empowerment Today by Dr. Pamela Steiner, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health | College of Saint Elizabeth, April 2017 | Talk.
Artists vs. Bulldozers: Battles to save Beirut's heritage get creative | CNN Travel | Gallery.
The Beat Goes On by Tom Young, by Tony Elkhoury | YouTube, October 2016 | Video.
'From Sacred Wrath' Performs to Full Houses in NY | The Armenian Weekly, June 2015 | Text.
Student Documents Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide (in Turkey) | Columbia University SIPA, April 2015 | Text.
Contemporary Genocide Play to Debut in New York City | Hetq, February 2015 | Text.
A Passion Outside the Classroom by Fernando Peinado | SIPA News Magazine, May 2014 | Text.
Pushkin Street: Raffi Wartanian's Eclectic, Honest Musical Debut by Liana Aghajanian | ianyan magazine, January 2014 | Text.
Exploring the Ancestral Homeland by Alan Feiler | Johns Hopkins University Arts & Sciences Magazine, Fall 2013 | Text.
Young Armenian-American Completes Fulbright; Experience Enhances Music by Taleen Babayan | Massis Post, August 2013 | Text.
Րաֆֆի Վարդանյանը ձայնասկավառակների գումարը փոխանցեց Թեղուտի պաշտպանությանը | Lragir.am, July 2013 | Text.
Րաֆի Վարդանյան by Meri Sanahyan | Shoghakat TV Դեպի տուն Series, March 2013 | Video.
Armenian-American Artist Debuts 'Pushkin Street' in Armenia by Lily Torosyan | The Armenian Weekly, February 2013 | Text.
Pushkin Street Review | Roots Time Radio Belgium, 2013 | Text.
BRC Joins the Highlandtown Farmers' Market by Maryland Office of Refugees and Asylees | RYP Youth Bring Art Skills and Life Stories to Highlandtown Mural | New Americans: An occasional letter from the Maryland Office of Refugees and Asylees, Summer 2011 | Text.
Employed, unemployed and cream can by Bruce Thorson | University of Nebraska Lincoln Photojournalism Blog, June 2009 | Text.
Adept DEFAWNK wows small crowd at Frazier's by Melissa Artnak | The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, March 2006 | Text.