{"id":59335,"date":"2024-02-17T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=59335"},"modified":"2024-02-19T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T15:58:17","slug":"dissident-poetry-fest-to-delight-mind-and-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2024\/02\/dissident-poetry-fest-to-delight-mind-and-tongue.html","title":{"rendered":"Dissident Poetry Festival to Delight Mind and Tongue<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a rare poetry reading organized by Efe Bal\u0131k\u00e7\u0131o\u011flu<\/a> and Sibel Erol<\/a> and focused on often unacknowledged voices in contemporary Turkey<\/strong>, the works of three dissident authors are to be presented as a serious Turkish delight for mind and tongue. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presentation<\/a> on Feb. 23 \u2014 both in person<\/a> and on Zoom<\/a> \u2014 <\/strong>will feature Sevin\u00e7 \u00c7alhano\u011flu<\/a>, a feminist poet and artist who, I’m told, writes mostly about women’s experiences under\u00a0Turkish patriarchy; F\u0131rat Demir<\/a>, a gay Kurdish poet who, I’m told, writes highly politically charged poems criticizing the Turkish government’s discriminatory rhetoric against Kurds; and Nicholas Glastonbury<\/a> reading his translations of the late queer leftist poet Arkada\u015f Z. \u00d6zger<\/a>, who was brutally murdered in an unsolved hate crime against the LQBTQ+ community and Turkey’s leftist movement.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sevin\u00e7 \u00c7alhano\u011flu<\/strong> was born in Istanbul in 1988, currently lives in Brooklyn, and is the founding editor of Moero<\/em>, an online poetry journal based in Turkey. Her work is “shaped by memories of space and childhood, and reflects themes of belonging, grief, and spiritual beliefs.” She incorporates visual elements and experimental writing and has exhibited interdisciplinary literary works. In addition to her Turkish poetry, she has published books in English, including A Promenade at Home<\/a><\/em> (2021) and My Life in Curves Recently<\/a><\/em> (2020). <\/p>\n\n\n

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F\u0131rat Demir<\/strong> was born in Istanbul in 1991 and lives in New York. He is the author of two books of Kurdish poetry published in Turkish, \u00d6te Ge\u00e7eler<\/a><\/em> (2015) and Yeni C\u00fcret \u00c7a\u011f\u0131<\/a> <\/em>(2012). Critics have described his work as “queer guerrilla poetry” with its bold and diverse political poetic discourse, and they have lauded “his unique conception of aesthetics, morality and subjectivity.” He offers “an interrogation of Kurdish identity as a borderless space of resistance and joy … subvert[ing] ideological and historical clich\u00e9s and displacing those with, punk vulnerabilities, strange linguistic and semantic arrangements, Rimbaud-like demonic anger, and d\u00e9tournement tactics.” <\/p>\n\n\n

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Nicholas Glastonbury<\/strong> is a cultural anthropologist of sound, media, empire, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. He is a postdoctoral associate in the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University and holds a doctorate in Anthropology and a Graduate Certificate in Women\u2019s and Gender Studies from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also the chair of the advisory board for the PEN\/Heim Translation Fund. His translation of Sema Kaygusuz’s novel Every Fire You Tend<\/em><\/a> received the 2020 TA First Translation Prize from the Society of Authors. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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In a rare poetry reading organized by Efe Bal\u0131k\u00e7\u0131o\u011flu and Sibel Erol and focused on often unacknowledged\u00a0voices in contemporary Turkey, the works of three dissident authors are to be presented as a serious Turkish delight.
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