Carine Topal

Carine Topal is a transplanted New Yorker living in the southern California desert. Her work has appeared in The Best of the Prose Poem, Greensboro Review, Spoon River Poetry Anthology, and many other journals and anthologies. Her 2nd collection of poetry, “Bed of Want,” won the 2007 Robert G. Cohen Prose Poetry Award. Topal’s 3rd collection, “In the Heaven of Never Before,” was published in 2008 by Moon Tide Press. She is the recipient of the 2015 Briar Cliff Review Award for Poetry. Her prize-winning book, Tattooed, won the 4th Biennial Chapbook Contest from Palettes and Quills, recently released in July, 2015.

Works

Concerning Incense, Suffumigations, Perfumes, and Odors

Concerning Incense, Suffumigations, Perfumes, and Odors by Carine Topal

Even My Father

Even My Father by Carine Topal

The Hands of a Dead Rebel

A wonderful reading by Carine Topal of her piece The Hands of a Dead Rebel