Kamal Ayyildiz is a Turkish-American poet and visual artist living and working in New York. Ayyildiz has a master’s degree from Hollins University, and has received fellowships from the Edward Albee Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work has been exhibited and published in the United States and abroad. In 2005, Ayyildiz published a book of poetry, The Cistern, which was nominated by the Virginia Library Association for Best Poetry by a Virginia Author 2004.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Kamal Ayyildiz
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Charleston, SC
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000
Studios
Monday Music
Kamal Ayyildiz worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…