“I felt like the wall spoke in many voices.” Carole Kim commenting on her multi-media installation A VOID A VOID I was tickled all over with glee to hear that one of my experimental poems was super-enlarged and ephemerally projected, among the poems of some other poets, onto the walls …
I was very glad to hear that two of my poems have recently been given a second life by being included in an anthology each: 1) jar of rain: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2020 (Red Moon Press), edited by Jim Kacian et al. and 2) the forthcoming …
Last week, I was glad to have listened in on a stirring session of ecopoetic readings hosted by UC Dublin called, ‘Writing in the Pause’, after the current issue of Plumwood Mountain, An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics (Vol. 7 no. 2, ed. J. Skinner). This was led by …
The mysterious aura of the anonymous Utah monolith comes to mind when reading Dave Read‘s e-chapbook between satellites, which was made available by the online journal Bones – journal for the short poem. A minimalist other-worldliness a la McCracken, a la 2001: A Space Odyssey, pervades this collection of asemic …
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake which devastated much of Izmir, Sefer Hısar, and the Greek island of Samos yesterday (October 31, 2020) had me thinking of the 6.6 quake I experienced on July 21, 2017 on the Bodrum Peninsula. My family and I we’re staying in the village of Torba when …
While I am by no means a fan of arabesque music, I do admire Ahmet Güntan’s poetic prose vignettes of the arabesque pop icons Ibrahim Tatlıses and Müslüm Gürses (or Müslüm Baba). In each, Güntan treats his subject with just the right mixture of bemusement and awe. Their impact is …