Alpay Ulku's work is in the current issue of Five Points and in the Gettysburg Review's final issue, and a personal essay "On Reading with an Open Heart" is in the January 2024 issue of Plume. New work is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review and in Willow Springs. Other poetry publications include AGNI, the American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. His first collection, Meteorology (BOA Editions), was selected as a "Notable Debut" by the Academy of American Poets Book Club, and his second collection has twice been a finalist in the National Poetry Series Open Competition. He splits his time between Chicago and the city of Samsun, on the Black Sea coast of Türkiye.

Other poems on the web by Alpay Ulku:
Two poems
Three poems
"What the Sky Is Like"

Alpay Ulku's Website.

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Other poems by Five Points in Verse Daily:
March 9, 2024:   "The Creation of Angels" by John Biguenet
March 8, 2024:   "Countdown to Another War" by Bruce Bond
February 25, 2024:   "Abandon" by Jesse Lee Kercheval
February 23, 2024:   "When I listen, I can hear" by Jean Nordhaus
February 22, 2024:   "Happiness" by Lewis Meyers
February 19, 2024:   "Covid Leads The Procession To Woodlawn Cemetery" by Cynthia Parker-Ohene
January 25, 2020:   "Grackle" by George Kalogeris
January 24, 2020:   "Errors of Beauty" by Ann Townsend
January 23, 2020:   "The Anchors Speak" by Terese Svoboda
May 2, 2019:   "'On the Bodies of Women'" Ina Conradie
April 29, 2019:   "Brother" Lisa Julie
September 2, 2016:   "Charolais" by John Kinsella
August 31, 2016:   "When I Had Died" by Cynthia Huntington
February 9, 2016:   "Funeral in Vermont" by Andrea Hollander
November 21, 2015:   "Ode to Chronic Insolvency" "I lived in an apartment..."
November 20, 2015:   "Ascension" by Philip Levine
March 31, 2015:   "Mrs. Cavendish and the Learning Curve" by Stephen Dunn
March 30, 2015:   "Passing Phase" by Stephen Dunn
November 9, 2013:   "The Rescue" by Chelsea Rathburn
February 7, 2011:   "Casals" by Gerald Stern
September 8, 2010:   "Converted Church" by Medbh McGuckian
December 15, 2009:   "The Opening" by Philip Schultz
May 14, 2009:   "Contentment" by Jane Hirshfield
May 12, 2009:   "Storm Catechism" by Kim Addonizio
November 19, 2008:   "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley
November 18, 2008:   "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels
November 17, 2008:   "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira
May 26, 2008:   "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern
November 11, 2007:   "Disciplines" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
November 7, 2007:   "Heart Poem" by Mary Oliver
November 5, 2007:   "Easeful Death" by Kim Addonizio
March 18, 2006:   "After a Month of Rain" by Linda Pastan
October 28, 2005:   "Gone" by Malena Mörling
October 27, 2005:   "Fears" Rodney Jones
October 26, 2005:   "Flamingo Film" Dave Smith
October 24, 2005:   "October Storm" David Baker
May 8, 2005:  "Riding" Robert W. Hill
May 5, 2005:  "Vessel" Cecily Parks
May 2, 2005:  "Heavenly" Mary Oliver
October 23, 2004:  "Unsound Ship" by Medbh McGuckian
September 19, 2003:  "No Shelter" by Ann Townsend

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