K. Kamal Ayyildiz was raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, but currently divides his time between New York City and Istanbul. His first book, The Cistern, a long poem about Istanbul, [...]
Lord Jesus come into my heart before the water has boiled out. Change didn’t come. No more sweat in the sighs of his liquor, no more oleo on burns. Fat from hymnals, a woman’s rights got no [...]