Vol. XLIV No. 174 Fall 2003

Table of Contents

California Harvest
Co-edited by Mark Arax and Aris Janigian

Introduction

Editor's note

Mark Arax &
Aris Janigian

3

Contents

The Tree House

Armen Hogtanian

2

Terrorist, Saint

Markar Melkonian

4

Poems from Letters to My Father

David Kherdian

12

My Hollywood

Aram Saroyan

14

The Ayki

Peter Najarian

18

24IIO

Michael Simonian

22

The Archeology of Memory

Hrag Varjabedian

24

Poems

Sylva Dakessian

35

Two Images

Vic Jabrassian

36

Artemis is Grief

Daniel Melnick

38

Two Paintings

Jeanette Arax Melnick

41 & 44

Saying Goodbye to the Raisin Farm

Mark Arax

47

The Kurd

Aris Janigian

50

Poems

Lory Bedikian

58 & 73

Dancers

Nonny Hogrogian

59

Immigrant Themes in Saroyan's Fiction

Harry Keyishian

60

Baker's Son

Shahé Mankerian

65

Saroyan's Bookie

Larry Hill

66

Taking the Word "Alleged" Out of the Armenian Genocide: How Persistence Can Change Policy at a Major Newspaper

Aris Janigian

74

Little Girl

David Mushgain

79

The Daydreaming Boy

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

80