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The chapbook of the Second Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival opens with the Festival's invited speaker, the renowned literary translator of Hikmet and a scholar of literature, Professor Mutlu Konuk Blasing of Brown University. Her analysis, "Nâzim Hikmet: The Forms of Exile" establishes important insights about Hikmet's poetry of exile as reflected in the poet's mixed use of traditional and free verse forms. The rest of the chapbook is dedicated to poems submitted by the winners of the poetry competition. The competition received over five hundred poems from one hundred seventy poets representing places as far afield as Alaska and Malta.The festival and the poetry competition were organized by American Turkish Association of North Carolina. The festival has taken place on April 18, 2010 in Cary, NC. The festival organizers were Buket Aydemir, Pelin Bali, Erdag Goknar, Mehmet C. Ozturk and Birgul Tuzlali.
The book includes an article by Prof. Rand Brandes on Seamus Heaney and his poetry, a poem by the invited poet, Gibbons Ruark, poems by the winners of the Sixth Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition and original translations of poems by the Turkish poets, Melih Cevdet Anday, Birhan Keskin, kucuk Iskender, Murathan Mungan & Behcet Necatigil.
The book includes an article by Prof. Stanislav Shvabrin on Anna Akhmatova and her poetry, a poem by the invited poet, Betty Adcock, poems by the winners of the Seventh Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition and original translations of poems by the Turkish poet, Behcet Necatigil.
The book includes poems by Erdag Goknar and poems by the winners of the Ninth Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition
The chapbook of the Third Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival opens with a paper given by the festival's guest speaker, Murat Nemet-Nejat: "Eda, Intimations from Turkish Poetry." The rest of the chapbook is dedicated to poems submitted by the winners of the poetry competition. The festival and the poetry competition were organized by American Turkish Association of North Carolina. The festival, which took place on April 17, 2011 in Cary, NC was made possible by a major grant from the Turkish Cultural Foundation. The festival organizers were Buket Aydemir, Pelin Bali, Mehmet C. Ozturk and Birgul Tuzlali.
2019 issue of hasret / longing includes poems by the winners of the Eleventh Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize, an article on the Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca by Prof. Irene Gomez-Castellano, poems of the Turkish poet, Sukru Erbas, translated to English by Gokcenur C and Neil P. Doherty and an interview with Efe Duyan on Turkish poetry.
The chapbook includes two articles on Pablo Neruda by Professors Carlos Trujillo of Villanova University and Greg Dawes of NC State University as well as poems by the finalists of the Fourth Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry competition.
A Study Guide for Nazim Hikmet's "Letter to My Wife," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
*'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem* ‘I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood and found it a queendom, a wild queendom.’ In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest days. With honesty and unabashed beauty, they bear witness to that most tender of times – when a new life arrives, and everything changes.