About Poems

These poems were published online or in print: 

• • Ribbon Time, Week Before, The Moment, An Hour After —Prairie Schooner — Spring 2002 

  • A Bulgarian Movie with Japanese Subtitles — Colere —2002 Issue 2

  • A History for a Love at First Sight — Poetry Motel   —2002, included in the magazine as a "Wall Paper" 

  • Al-Mir'aj — Red Wheel Barrow —2002 Volume 3 

  • Boztugay —The Massachusetts Review —Fall 2003  

  • Glamor of Botany —The Cafe Review — Fall 2006  

  • Spinach and Peas  — Nidus, Summer 2005  — the site doesn't exist anymore

  • The Barn, The Police Station, Lenin Hospital — Out of Line —2005

  • The Idea of a Postcard from Chechnya — Off the Coast —2006 September    

  • Glamor of Botany —The Cafe Review — Fall 2006 

  • The Cool Hand of Unseen —The Charles River Journal —2009  

  • The Design of a City — Istanbul Literary Review, January 2011 — the site doesn't exist anymore

  • The Curse of a City — Istanbul Literary Review, January 2011 — the site doesn't exist anymore

  • The Design of a City — Mediterranean Poetry, May 2011 — the site doesn't exist anymore

  • The Curse of a City — Mediterranean Poetry, May 2011— the site doesn't exist anymore

  • Made In USA, Communist Bandit, Bowls of Dust — A Chapbook of Talks & Poetry —Third Annual Nâzım Hikmet Poetry Festival — 2011   

  •  Music of Tatars with a Never-Ending Refrain — Solstice Magazine's Spring 2015 issue  

  • Closing My Parents' House —Naugatuuck Poetry Review  Summer 2011 Issue 6

  • No Love No City —Naugatuck Poetry Review Winter 2012 Issue 7 

  • Bus 57 — Naugatuck River Review —Summer 2013 

  • Remote, On Julia's Soul, Her Heart Was A Planchette — Felt Sun — 2014 

  •  Music of Tatars with a Never-Ending Refrain — Solstice Magazine's Spring 2015 issue  

  • No Good Soldier in Iraq, A Song for the Charles, Whichever Comes First —Felt Sun — 2017 

  • Invitation to Prayer — Pensive —2020  

  • Water Cooler & Vultures —Collateral Magazine - 2021 Eleventh Issue 

  • Classified —San Pedro River Review — Fall 2021    

  • Echoes Through Some Decades, Fall on Wall Street — The Ravens' Perch — March 2022 

Some translations of my poems

• • Bozturgay,  — Söyleşi Üç Aylık Şiir Dergisi Vol. 1 —  with Turkish translation

  • Nazar, Crimean Tatar Attitude and Culture Magazine's August 2011 Issue contains an interview conducted with me and two of my poems, Morning Prayer and Communist Bandit. It also has a wonderful translation of Morning Prayer to the Tatar language - thank you Taner Murat.

Also might be of interest:

• Ramadan in Dunkin Donuts, Al Mir'aj, Ribbon Time: The Moment, Morning Prayer —  On Being (formerly Speaking of Faith, American Public Media) —The WEB site has the text and my audio reading of the poems 

• Ramadan in Dunkin' Donuts, was read on KBRP Radion in Arizona, Sunday August 7th at 9AM, 2011

• The Idea of Order at Sveti Klimenti — Felt Sun —2014 A Collaboration with Ken Rosen