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from ISSUE XXX February 2020
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"Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry." |
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editors' Recommendations
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Gabor Lanczkor, Sound Odyssey, Selected Poems, (Paperwall, 2016)
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Waiting for The Light by Alicia Ostriker (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
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Between Two Gardens by Laura Quinn Guidry (Alamo Bay Press, 2017)
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Life in Suspension by Hélène Cardona
Publisher: Salmon Poetry (2016)
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The Philosopher Savant by Rustin Larson
Publisher: Glass Lyre Press (2015)
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War Music – An Account of Homer’s Iliad, Faber and Faber, edited by Christopher Reid
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The Singer of Alleppey by Pramila Venkateswaran, Shanti Arts LLC (2018)
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Featured Poet
İlhan Sami Çomak was born in 1973 in Karliova town of Bingol province. After completing his primary, secondary and high school education in Bingol, he enrolled in The Faculty of Letters Department of Geography at Istanbul University in 1992. He was detained in 1994 and imprisoned. Mr. Çomak is on remand for the last 26 years in prison. He is a poet of 8 published poetry books, which he wrote during his detained 26 years in prison.
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Metin Celâl was born in 1961 in Ankara. He studied Petroil Engineering in ODTÜ and Journalism in Istanbul University. He worked as a director, redactor and general manager in various publishing houses and literary reviews. He also worked on the board of some literary reviews. He prepared anthologies and dictionaries. Since 1979 his essays and poems have been published in literary reviews. His poems were translated into 10 different languages and published as books in French and German. He still serves as a director of one publishing house.
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Süreyya Aylin Antmen wrote her first poem when she was 13 years old. She attended Anadolu University (AOF) at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology. Antmen’s first published poem appeared in Patika poetry review in 2004. Her poems and articles were published in the reviews Şiir Ülkesi, Patika, Öteki-siz, Damar, NO Edebiyat, Muaf, Varlık, Cumhuriyet Kitap, Özgür Edebiyat, Cin Ayşe and Yeni E. “Sonsuzluğa Kiracı” her works were found “remarkable” in 2008 Yaşar Nabi Nayır Youth Awards. Her poems have been translated in English, Zaza, Urdu, Kurdish and French languages.
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"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named."
[Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 114 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).]
