On Tuesday July 15, 2016, a faction of the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the government. Soldiers invaded the ruling party’s headquarters in Istanbul and fighter jets bombed the Parliament building in Ankara (Turkey’s capital). In the weeks and months following, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğa restructured state institutions in a move many have seen as an attempt to consolidate power and crush opposition.
Jennifer Reimer on "A Week After the Failed Military Coup" |
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"Perfection and Precision in a Poet’s Miniature Worlds"
"In her ninth collection of poems, A Film in Which I Play Everyone (Graywolf, 101 pp., paperback, $17), Mary Jo Bang assumes a directorial stance, 'the view of an angel,' perched a little above the action. Each poem feels like a scene from a life re-enacted on a dollhouse movie set, a scaled-down world."
viaTHE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Evie Shockley on Language as Form
"I found this truism (which seems to readily reproduce itself: 'one sin begets another,' 'one tragedy begets another,' 'one wedding begets another') bubbling up in my brain. If only one vote begat another in that inevitable way, I sighed, thinking of how hard it was to get women’s right to vote established as the law of the land—and of how long it was after that before Black women were able to exercise their 'women’s rights.'" |
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