Twentieth Button I made buttons out of salt particles rippling across the ocean’s evening. Minerals and dried plant were extracted, remnants of volcanoes and forest fires, smoke and acid, neutrons produced by fission, prayers for the easiest way to make rain. You asked me to explain the second process within this clutter I’ve made: often, […]
Jeffrey Kahrs
JEFFREY KAHRS is the author of One Hook at a Time: A History of the Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union of the Pacific (Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union, (2015) and a chapbook from Gold Wake Press (2010). A winner of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize (2012), he co-edited an issue of the Atlanta Review on poetry in Turkey. His poems have appeared in Talisman, What Rough Beast, Subtropics, Sözcükler and other journals. He has also published fiction and non-fiction in the Bosporus Review of Books, Heavy Feather Review, and PN Review. Recently, working with his translation partner, Mete Özel, their work has been published in Asymptote, Circumference, Consequence, and will soon be published in the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lived in Istanbul for 18 years.
