Volkan Hacioglu was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 26 September 1977. He earned B.A. in 2000, and then M.A. in 2003 both at Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics. In 2006 he matriculated in the Ph.D. program in economics at State University of New York at Albany, College of Arts and Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in 2010. He lectured courses of Æsthetics at Nazim Hikmet Academy. Since 1997 his poems and poetry translations appeared in various journals and magazines. Hes has three books of poetry published. He is the-editor-in-chief of the international multilingual magazine Rosetta World Literatura.
'The heart has its reasons
Of which reason knows nothing.' - Blaise Pascal
Keep in thy mind that rebellious sun
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'Let the recklesness be our life,
And forget as we feel! '
Fernando Pessoa
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“You know that place between sleep and awake,
That place where you still remember dreaming?
That’s where I’ll always love you,
That’s where I’ll be waiting.” ~ Peter Pan
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Beware the mercy of widows
Like a fiendish hand caresses the neck
Of a sacrifice soon to be cut
Sly is the betrayal
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