"Coronation"
by Alpay Ulku
The Gettysburg Review
Summer 2005

Alpay Ulku:

Alpay Ulku has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Millay Colony, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Iowa Arts Council. His first book, Meteorology (BOA, 1999), was called an "exciting debut" by the Academy of American Poets. Poems from his second collection have appeared in Atlanta Review, Canary Review, Crazyhorse, Hayden's Ferry Review, Malahat Review, Northwest Review, and Ploughshares. He works as a technical writer in Chicago, Illinois.

About The Gettysburg Review:

Since the publication of its first issue in 1988, The Gettysburg Review has been recognized as one of the country's best journals. In its first ten years of publication, more than fifty short stories, poems, and essays first published in our journal have found their way into such prize anthologies as Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. In addition, our stunning graphics have helped bring us numerous design awards, including four Best Journal Design awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Contributors include such luminaries as E. L. Doctorow, Rita Dove, Joyce Carol Oates, and Richard Wilbur alongside emerging artists such as Carol Ann Davis, Emily Fox Gordon, Naeem Murr, and Kirk Nesset. With its award-winning editing, writing, and design, The Gettysburg Review is, as one reader put it, "Pure delight, every time."

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