Çağlar Köseoğlu

Description

Çağlar Köseoğlu is a poet and educator based in Rotterdam. His work has appeared in various Dutch and Flemish literary journals, as well as on Social Text, Cabaret Wittgenstein, and Radio Alhara, and is forthcoming in deleuzine. His chapbook 34 (Stanza, 2015) is both an anti-history of Turkey and an abstract elegy for a group of Kurdish border traders. His poetry collection Nasleep [Aftermath] (het balanseer, 2020) takes the Gezi Park protests of 2013 as its point of departure and explores the remnants of that historical moment, oscillating between polyphonic, critical noise, and post-revolutionary affects. In 2025, he was the poet-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Currently, he is working on his next collection onze liefde is terroristisch [our love is terroristic], for which he received a grant from the Dutch Foundation for Literature. Köseoğlu teaches in the Humanities department at Erasmus University College, at MEiA at the Piet Zwart Institute, and at Critical Studies at the Sandberg Institute.