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 …