Go Turks!
The rough equivalent of shutting down Central Park in Manhattan or Hyde Park in London is not going well for Turkish capital. Oh, and here's why the working class remains important:
Can you drive an excavator well enough to commandeer it and use it to smash police cordons? Likely not, but lots of people still can. Make friends with them.
Go Greeks!
Or, to put it another way, I did my cultural duty for the year and placed a poem with the new literary journal Φωνές, which is "a nonprofit literary journal based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose goal is to bridge the gaps between Modern Greek academia and modern-day Greek communities and Philhellenes throughout the world." My poem "Landmark (After Hitchcock)"* will appear at the end of the year. The first issue had poems and a story by Dan Georgakas who writes sentimental pieces of Greek America when not reminiscing about his time in the anarchist group Black Mask.
If you wonder how editing a Greek-American literary journal might work, here's a line from the contract: "I understand that I have the right to speak to an editor one time in a respectful manner." For a moment, after I read that, I thought it was ridiculous. Then I remembered that 90 percent of the submissions would be from Greeks, so it made perfect sense to make the issue clear.
*Smart people who are ear-deep in the horror field might wonder if a poem by that name might have been originally written for the poetry anthology A Sea of Alone. It was, but was not accepted. I kept the poem though and am v. happy to see that it will be published. I am now my own grandmother.
The rough equivalent of shutting down Central Park in Manhattan or Hyde Park in London is not going well for Turkish capital. Oh, and here's why the working class remains important:
Can you drive an excavator well enough to commandeer it and use it to smash police cordons? Likely not, but lots of people still can. Make friends with them.
Go Greeks!
Or, to put it another way, I did my cultural duty for the year and placed a poem with the new literary journal Φωνές, which is "a nonprofit literary journal based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose goal is to bridge the gaps between Modern Greek academia and modern-day Greek communities and Philhellenes throughout the world." My poem "Landmark (After Hitchcock)"* will appear at the end of the year. The first issue had poems and a story by Dan Georgakas who writes sentimental pieces of Greek America when not reminiscing about his time in the anarchist group Black Mask.
If you wonder how editing a Greek-American literary journal might work, here's a line from the contract: "I understand that I have the right to speak to an editor one time in a respectful manner." For a moment, after I read that, I thought it was ridiculous. Then I remembered that 90 percent of the submissions would be from Greeks, so it made perfect sense to make the issue clear.
*Smart people who are ear-deep in the horror field might wonder if a poem by that name might have been originally written for the poetry anthology A Sea of Alone. It was, but was not accepted. I kept the poem though and am v. happy to see that it will be published. I am now my own grandmother.