Alpay Ulku

Alpay Ulku's first collection is Meteorology (BOA Editions), which was selected as an "Notable Debut" by the Academy of American Poets book club. His poems have appeared in literary journals such as Agni, Boulevard, Crazyhorse, Epoch, The Fiddlehead, The Gettysburg Review, The Malahat Review, The Northwest Review, Ploughshares, and Witness, among others. His work has been anthologized in American Poetry: The Next Generation, Poetry Daily, and City of the Big Shoulders: an Anthology of Chicago Poetry. His poem Three Rivers was selected by senior Slate editor Michael Agger for their "Best Valentine's Day poems" feature.

Alpay has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Iowa Arts Council, the Edna St.Vincent Millay Colony, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.

Alpay received an MFA from the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop and a BA from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands.

Alpay works as a technical writer and business analyst in Chicago, where he lives with his wife, the writer and organization superhero, Anne-Marie Gallagher, and their two boys, Snapdragon and Lickedy-split. You can visit Anne-Marie's website at www.organizationquest.com

NEWS AND UPDATES

The Penn Center for the Book Public Poetry Project has selected my poem The Stiller of Atoms as one of the four featured poems for 2012. The Center will create 1,500 posters of The Stiller of Atoms and will distribute them free to schools, libraries, cultural centers, and cafes throughout Pennsylvania. (April 2012)

One poem forthcoming in The New York Quarterly (2012)

One poem in City of the Big Shoulders: an Anthology of Chicago Poetry (University of Iowa Press), April 2012