Erdag Goknar

Fady Joudah

Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival

Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival Staff

Murat Nemet-Nejat

Hatice Orun

Jeffrey Kahrs

Winners of the Fifth Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition Staff

The festival chapbook includes an essay on Mahmoud Darwish's poetry by Fady Joudah, original translations of Turkish poets, Nazim Hikmet, Gulten Akin and Birhan Keskin and poems by the winners of the Fifth Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition.

A Chapbook of Talks and Poetry

Fifth Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival

Nazim Hikmet

Edwina Attlee

Michael Beadle

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.

Third Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival

Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival

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