I will read my poem "Impossible Scarlet." Come join us! ♥️ #poetrysky #poetryprize 🔗 www.thepoetrylighthouse.com/events-and-p...

Subscribe to my Substack! 💙 lenaozge.substack.com

Studying Latin like a mad person! Stellae me ducunt! 🪽 #AmorLatinitatis #Latin #LinguaLatina

Read my poem "The Cabaret at the End of the World" in the latest issue of The Orange Rose! 🧡 #poetry #poetrysky 🔗 theorangeroselitmag.com/2026/06/30/t...

I like the this one a lot. Great imagery and a kind of suffering but warm. I've been exploring the harsher side of this kind of dynamic in my drafts. Thanks for sharing!

Read my poem "The Cabaret at the End of the World" in the latest issue of The Orange Rose! 🧡 #poetry #poetrysky 🔗 theorangeroselitmag.com/2026/06/30/t...

“We sit before the Pyramids, we sec Judgment done upon the Nations, War, and Peace, and Inundations. Change of feature none know We.” (Goethe “Faust II”) 🎨 Joseph Urban (1903)

My poem Bosphorus Blue from the wonderful @bulbregion.bsky.social 🩵

"The word 'river' must also mean 'time' because rivers are the oldest storytellers..." June in @OxClimateSoc blog! @UniofOxford 🔗 oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/goddess...

👇👇👇 bulbregion.com/Two-Istanbul...

Here is my June poem from the Oxford Climate Society Blog! 🧡 @ox.ac.uk

LOVE my 'Extinction Column' logo on the Oxford Climate Society blog! 🧡 Thank you OCS blog with all my heart! Here I am writing a monthly column highlighting the extinct species of the Catastrocene! @UniofOxford 🔗 oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/categor...

From @bulbregion.bsky.social with thanks to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social #poetry #poem #poetrysky

"As the money splits, the boundaries increase. The book came up because of the flood. I always fall into my own language." Tracy Fuad (@tracyfuad.bsky.social) returns to The Bulb Region with a deeply experimental, experiential poem. 🔗 below!

So proud to have two Istanbul poems in the wonderful @bulbregion.bsky.social ♥️ With sincere thanks to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social

“My desire rises like the voice of a soprano / in the pitch of an aria, so candied but so sharp and shrill that it almost cuts / the back of my tongue.” The brilliant Özge Lena (@lenaozge.bsky.social) is in The Bulb Region with a pair of poems from Istanbul. 🔗 below!

LOVE my 'Extinction Column' logo on the Oxford Climate Society blog! 🧡 Thank you OCS blog with all my heart! Here I am writing a monthly column highlighting the extinct species of the Catastrocene! @UniofOxford 🔗 oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/categor...

Honoured to hear from Wolfgang Görtschacher, the editor of Poetry Salzburg Review at the University of Salzburg, that they will publish two of my poems! 🤍 #poetrysky 🔗 www.poetrysalzburg.com

"These poems are difficult because they are precise." From the Editorial Note by Max Wallis in Issue 3 of The Aftershock Review. 💜 @maxwallis.bsky.social

“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may... I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate." ("Antigone") Jean Anouilh was #botd 1910 🎨 Leighton "Antigone" (1882)

A wonderful magazine! Read their "Pollution" issue! 🔗 www.consilience-journal.com/issue-25

Özge Lena in ISSUE 29! www.theshorepoetry.org/ozge-lena-to...

Delighted that my poems "Gasoline" and "Pera 1892" will be published in The End of the World issue of Elsewhere! 🤍 My sincere thanks to editors Anna Evans and Marcel Krueger. #poetry #poetrysky @elsewherejournal.bsky.social 🔗 www.elsewhere-journal.com?utm_source=i...

Tomorrow evening! 🌟 Come join us.

Tomorrow evening! 🌟 Come join us.

Read my April and May poems & accompanying texts in the Extinction Column on the Oxford Climate Society blog! #poetrysky 🌍 oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/splendi... 🌍 oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/beautif...

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Writing for my "Extinction Column" in the Oxford Climate Society in @ox.ac.uk 💙 #poetry #extinction

So excited that I will be reading my poem "Undertaker" live at the upcoming Anthology Reading for Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War! ♥️ Come join us: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

So excited that I will be reading my poem "Undertaker" live at the upcoming Anthology Reading for Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War! ♥️ Come join us: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🖼 The Yerres, Effect of Rain, Gustave Caillebotte, 1875.

My poem "Deaf Things" from my 'Supernova' anthology in The Oxford Blue! 💙 @ox.ac.uk 🔗 theoxfordblue.co.uk/supernova/?a...

"The poet sees for a certainty how one not a great artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist. . . . The power to destroy or remould is freely used by him but never the power of attack. . . . The presence of the greatest poet conquers." —Walt Whitman, Intro to Leaves of Grass

“Little black horse. Where are you taking your dead rider?” Federico García Lorca was born #otd 1898 🎨 Salvador Dalí

Over the moon to have an acceptance from the wonderful @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for their Fall issue! 🤍 With my heartfelt thanks to the EIC Aaron Lelito. #poetrysky www.wildroofjournal.com

Incredibly honoured that my poem "Birds In Ukraine" has been commended in the Bermondsey and Beyond Poetry Competition 2026! 🌟 A huge thank you to Pat Kingwell and the wonderful panel of judges for this recognition. 🔗 bermondsey.london/event/litera...

AND thrilled that my poems, "Transparency of the Impossible" and "Impossible Scarlet" have been longlisted for The Poetry Lighthouse Prize 2026 - Summer! 🌟 #poetry #poetrysky Both poems will be published in an anthology which will be permanently archived in the National Poetry Library in London!

AND thrilled that my poems, "Transparency of the Impossible" and "Impossible Scarlet" have been longlisted for The Poetry Lighthouse Prize 2026 - Summer! 🌟 #poetry #poetrysky Both poems will be published in an anthology which will be permanently archived in the National Poetry Library in London!

Incredibly honoured that my poem "Birds In Ukraine" has been commended in the Bermondsey and Beyond Poetry Competition 2026! 🌟 A huge thank you to Pat Kingwell and the wonderful panel of judges for this recognition. 🔗 bermondsey.london/event/litera...

It is OUT! Delighted to have a little anthology of four poems titled 'Supernova' in the Bluebell section of The Oxford Blue. 💙 @ox.ac.uk READ 'SUPERNOVA' HERE: theoxfordblue.co.uk/supernova/?a...

"When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray." Dante Alighieri was born #OTD 1265 🎨 Gustave Doré

Thrilled that my poem "Certified Copy" is accepted to be published in the new issue of IONOSPHERE by @ampliconpress 🩵 #poetry Subs still open: ampliconpress.com/ionosphere

Supernova | Özge Lena | May 24, 2026 | The Oxford Blue theoxfordblue.co.uk/supernova/?a...

Preparing my debut poetry collection...

Here is my poem 'Beautiful Celia' from my Extinction Column in the Oxford Climate Society blog. 💙 @ox.ac.uk 🔗 oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/beautif...

“Night's black Mantle covers all alike." (Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas) 🎨 Teagan White “Oak Gallows” (2020) #owlishmonday

Delighted that my poem 'The Cabaret at the End of the World' is selected to be published in the sixth isssue of The Orange Rose! 🧡 #poetry #poetrysky 🔗 www.theorangeroselitmag.com

Welcome to the monthly 'Extinction Column' on the Oxford Climate Society blog 🌍 Here I will be writing a curated collection of poetry highlighting extinct species of our age! @ox.ac.uk 💙 Read 'Beautiful Celia' here: 🔗 oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/beautif...

Welcome to the monthly 'Extinction Column' on the Oxford Climate Society blog 🌍 Here I will be writing a curated collection of poetry highlighting extinct species of our age! @ox.ac.uk 💙 Read 'Beautiful Celia' here: 🔗 oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/beautif...