Muesser Yeniay (Turkey)

 Kite

        Muesser Yeniay

I am watching

the world

outside time

from the desert of nothingness

to the tent of existence

I am a kite

flying madly

on the skies of sorrow

凧

　　　 ムセル・エニアイ

わたしは見ている

　　　　世界を

時の外側にある

無の砂漠から

存在の天幕へ

わたしは凧だ

　　　　狂おしく揚がる

悲しみの空に

                                             Translation by Mariko Sumikura 

Muesser Yeniay (Turkey)

MÜESSER YENİAY was born in İzmir, 1984; graduated from Ege University, with a degree in English Language and Literature. She got her M.A from Bilkent University on Turkish Literature. She has won several prizes in Turkey including Yunus Emre (2006), Homeros Attila İlhan (2007), Ali Riza Ertan (2009), Enver Gökçe (2013) poetry prizes. She was also nominated for Pushcart Prize 2016 by Muse Pie Press in USA.

Her first book Darkness Also Falls Ground was published in 2009 and her second book I Founded My Home in the Mountains is a collection of translation from world poetry. Her second poetry book I Drew the Sky Again was published in 2011. She has translated the poems of Persian poet Behruz Kia by the name of Requiem to Tulips. She has translated Selected Poems of Gerard Augustin together with Eray Canberk, Başak Aydınalp, Metin Cengiz (2011). She has also translated Personal Anthology of Michel Cassir together with Eray Canberk and Metin Cengiz (2011). Lately, she has published Contemporary Spanish Anthology with Metin Cengiz and Jaime B. Rosa. She also translated the poetry of Israeli poet Ronny Someck (2014) and Hungarian poet Attila F. Balazs (2015). She has published a book on modern Turkish Avant-garde poetry The Other Consciousness: Surrealism and The Second New (2013). Her latest poetry book Before Me There Were Deserts was published in 2014 in İstanbul. Her poems were published in Hungarian by AB-Art Press by the name A Rozsaszedes Szertartasa (2015). Also in San Francisco, USA her poems were published by CC. Marimbo Press by the introduction of activist poet Jack Hirschman (2015).

Her poems have appeared in the following magazines abroad: Actualitatea Literară, Revista Luceafarul (Romania), The Voices Project, The Bakery, Sentinel Poetry, Yellow Medicine Review, Shot Glass Journal, Poesy, Shampoo, Los Angeles Review of Books, Apalachee Review (USA&England); Kritya, Shaikshik Dakhal (India); Casa Della Poesia, Libere Luci, I poeti di Europe in Versi e il lago di Como (Italy); Poeticanet, Poiein (Greece); Revue Ayna, Souffle, L'oiseau de feu du Garlaban (France); Al Doha (Qatar); Tema (Croatia); Dargah (Persia); Ngu'o'iHanoi (Vietnam).

The Anthologies her poetry appeared: With Our Eyes Wide Open; Aspiring to Inspire, 2014 Women Writers Anthology; 2014 Poetry Anthology- Words of Fire and Ice (USA) Poesia Contemporanea de la Republica de Turquie (Spain); Voix Vives de Mediterranee en Mediterranee, Anthologie Sete 2013 ve Poetique Insurrection 2015 (France); One Yet Many- The Cadence of Diversity, Shaikshik Dakhal (India); Come Cerchi Sull'acqua (Italy).

Her poems have been translated into Vietnamese, Hungarian, Croatian, English, Persian, French, Serbian, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Greek, Hindi, Spanish and Romanian. Her book in Hungarian was published in 2015 by AB-Art Publishing by the name "A Rozsaszedes Szertartasa" She participated in the poetry festivals like Sarajevo International Poetry Festival, September 2010 (Bosnia-Herzegovina); Nisan International Poetry Festival, May 2011 (Israel); Belgrad International Poetry Festival, September 2012 (Serbia); Voix Vives International Poetry Festival (Sete), July 2013 (France); Kritya International Poetry Festival, September 2013 (India), Galati/Antares International Poetry Festival, June 2014 (Romania), Medellin International Poetry Festival, July 2014 (Colombia); 2nd Asia Pasific Poetry Festival 2015 (Vietnam).

Müesser is the editor of the literature magazine Şiirden (of Poetry). She is currently pursuing a Phd in Turkish literature at Bilkent University, Ankara, and is also a member of PEN and the Writers Syndicate of Turkey.

ムセル・エニアイ（トルコ）

１９８４年、トルコ・イズミールに生まれる。エージ大学英文学科卒業。ビルカント大学大学院でトルコ文学修士号を取得。ユヌス・エムレ賞ほか詩にかんする賞を受賞、米国のＭｕｓｅ　Ｐｉｅ　Ｐｒｅｓｓ賞で渡米。

２００９年に「大地に降る闇」を出版。第二詩集は「わたしは山に家を見つけた」これは世界詩人集に初秋。サラエボ詩祭、セテ詩祭（フランス）、クリチャ国際詩祭（インド）、メデジン詩祭（コロンブア）、アジア太平洋詩祭（ベトナム）ほか、に参加。文学詩誌「Ｓｉｒｄｅｎ」の編集者。ビルケント大学で博士号取得を目指している。