Özge Lena
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International poet. Published in six continents.
#catapoetics
#catapoetry
#catastrocene
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So proud to present "Catapoetics: Poetry of the Catastrophe" in International Conference on Poetry Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.
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#catapoetry
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#catastrocene
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FABULOUS NEWS! My poem "Wing Transplant" is going to be published in Issue 109 of the wonderful MSLEXIA!
#poetry
#poetrysky
www.mslexia.co.uk
about 8 hours ago
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Peter Devonald
1 day ago
Delighted to have just been published by one of my dream publications -- huge thanks to
@inksweatandtears.co.uk
and the excellent editor/ publisher Helen Ivory and Kate Birch
inksweatandtears.co.uk/peter-devona...
#InkSweatAndTears
#poetrycommunity
#poetry
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Alice Notley 🩵
#poetrysky
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Here are my catapoems featured in
#PoetryExpo26
, the European Poetry Festival themed "Writing in the Wake of the World - New Verses of Torn Times."
www.versopolis.com
add a skeleton here at some point
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Here are my catapoems featured in
#PoetryExpo26
, the European Poetry Festival themed "Writing in the Wake of the World - New Verses of Torn Times."
www.versopolis.com
add a skeleton here at some point
3 days ago
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Delighted that my catapoem "Casting" is now LIVE on
#PoetryExpo26
, the European Poetry Festival!
#Versopolis
#Poetrysky
Watch & Listen:
www.versopolis.com/initiative/p...
3 days ago
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Dirk Puehl
3 days ago
"... still we dived down together liked extinct birds..." - I rather like it :-)
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Great news! Delighted that my poems "Arche" and "Ersatz" are accepted to be published in Sand Hills Literary Journal of Augusta University. Print in the US.
#poetry
#poetrysky
sandhillsmagazine.com/about?utm_so...
4 days ago
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Great news! Delighted that my poems "Arche" and "Ersatz" are accepted to be published in Sand Hills Literary Journal of Augusta University. Print in the US.
#poetry
#poetrysky
sandhillsmagazine.com/about?utm_so...
4 days ago
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Thrilled that my catapoem "A Series of Extinctions" is LIVE now on
#PoetryExpo26
, the European Poetry Festival!
#Versopolis
Watch & Listen:
www.versopolis.com/initiative/p...
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A Series of Extinctions | Versopolis
Versopolis Review is a pan-European cultural and humanities magazine.
https://www.versopolis.com/initiative/poetry-expo-26/content/1863/a-series-of-extinctions
8 days ago
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Biggest Poetry Fair! 🌟
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Biggest Poetry Fair! 🌟
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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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8 days ago
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International Times
10 days ago
A Walk of calm on the choppy waters of Love.
internationaltimes.it
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My catapoems will be featured in the Poetry Expo 2026 exhibition, starting this weekend!
#PoetryExpo26
#Catapoetics
#Catapoetry
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11 days ago
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Today's book! Reading in relation to
#catapoetics
11 days ago
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Dirk Puehl
11 days ago
"Cüneyt longed for warmth, for words, for his favourite meyhane over in Beyoğlu, where poetry and love waited. But the ferries did not run, and the ice was treacherous. So he shivered his way south, towards Atatürk Bridge, hoping he would not be too late."
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Beware the Karakoncolos, O best beloved, that trickster of the karakış, winter’s longest black nights. He lingers at the edge of firelight, half-man, half-shadow, his laughter as b…
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Dirk Puehl
11 days ago
Tonight the karakış, winter’s longest black nights end and so does the time when the Karakoncolos walks, a hairy Winter demon, a riddler, a trickster from Turkish folklore. We meet him in 1950s' Istanbul in our 22nd
#winterfolklore
tale, written for poet
@lenaozge.bsky.social
Read it below!
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FABULOUS News! My two catapoems, "Casting" and "A Series of Extinctions," will be featured in the Poetry Expo 2026 exhibition! Honoured to be a part of Versopolis, the European platform for poetry.
#PoetryExpo26
Coming this Saturday! 🔗
www.versopolis.com/initiative/p...
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12 days ago
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FABULOUS News! My two catapoems, "Casting" and "A Series of Extinctions," will be featured in the Poetry Expo 2026 exhibition! Honoured to be a part of Versopolis, the European platform for poetry.
#PoetryExpo26
Coming this Saturday! 🔗
www.versopolis.com/initiative/p...
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12 days ago
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Sublimation opens with my concrete poem! 💙 Available worldwide:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
13 days ago
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"Nature and Civilization have become so intertwined they can no longer be separated." Studying our age of
#catastrocene
within
#catapoetics
🔗
modronmagazine.com/earth-day-20...
13 days ago
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Maria Popova
13 days ago
The importance of being scared – Polish Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska on fairy tales and the necessity of fear
www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/27/w...
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The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear
“Andersen had the courage to write stories with unhappy endings. He didn’t believe that you should try to be good because it pays … but because evil stems from intellectual and emotiona…
https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/27/wislawa-szymborska-fairy-tales-fear/
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Dirk Puehl
13 days ago
Build an automaton and bring her to life with ancient magic - what could possibly go wrong? You guessed it, "human factor" - but is it the machine's fault? Read our 21st
#winterfolklore
story of Marvellous Metharme, the Maschinenbauer and Doctor Ambrosisus Wanzenbock the Thaumaturge of Göttingen
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It's OUT! ❄️ Published in Sweden, available worldwide! Delighted to have 3 poems in the "Let it Snow" issue of Sublimation.
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13 days ago
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14 days ago
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"The only thing?"
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
16 days ago
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Delighted that my poem "Taxidermic Wolf" will be published in the PANTOMIME issue of Azarão Lit Journal of Canada! 🤍 With thanks to Sandrine Letellier.
#poetry
www.azarao-litjournal.com
16 days ago
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Fabulous news! I have a poem accepted to be published in the Southword: New International Writing journal of
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
munsterlit.ie/southword/
16 days ago
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Ilya Kaminsky
17 days ago
This week “Letters of the Alphabet Go to War” by Lesyk Panasiuk, a book of poems that Katie Farris & I translated from Ukrainian is out from the wonderful Sarabande Books Lesyk is from Bucha, Ukraine, where some of the worst atrocities of this century took place.
sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
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So PROUD to start a Harvard University course on Modern Masterpieces of World Literature
@harvard.edu
♥️ Maybe one day I will teach
#catapoetics
here! :)
20 days ago
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For
#smallpoemsunday
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@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
here is my
#arspoetica
"Allegory of the Lungless Poet" published in Unbroken Journal.
22 days ago
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Marthine Satris
27 days ago
I'm so impressed by Action, Spectacle. They published Juliana Spahr's "Ars Poetics: Scotch Broom" which is now a core piece of my personal canon, Also, the poem "Deep Learning" by Clare Flanagan in Summer 2025, which made me lay down & cry:
www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
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Clare Flanagan - poetry — Action, Spectacle
https://www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-part-iii/flanagan
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New book! Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
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23 days ago
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Dirk Puehl
24 days ago
Today is Old Wassail and Here's to thee, old apple tree... Some places have very, very old wassailing customs, though, and we go to the West Country on Old Twelvey to witness such a one in our 11th
#winterfolklore
tale. Read it below. 🎨 Arthur Rackham
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Rachel Deering
24 days ago
Goodnight. Winter Night in the Mountains, Harald Sohlberg, 1914.
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Fabulous news! 💙 My poems "Horseshoe Crab Blood" and "Becoming a Galaxy" are accepted for The Book Bag x Write Here, Right Now Unwhispered Legacy Anthology! Thank you so much
@paulwritespoems.bsky.social
#poetry
#poetrysky
23 days ago
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University of Oxford
25 days ago
Rising global temperatures are driving an increase in extreme weather events. So, what can we do to be more prepared? Professor Myles Allen and Dr Antje Weisheimer explain. ⬇️
https://bit.ly/3XVdVLb
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End of term flowers from my students! 💜
25 days ago
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"this time I will not betray myself" My poem in the
@frazzledlit.bsky.social
🖤
28 days ago
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Thrilled to have two poems titled "Self Factory" and "Girl Factory" in the new issue of the splendid
@frazzledlit.bsky.social
💜
#poetry
#poetrysky
Read and listen on here:
www.frazzledlit.com/p/self-facto...
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Two Poems by Özge Lena
Self Factory/Girl Factory
https://www.frazzledlit.com/p/self-factory-girl-factory
29 days ago
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Jennifer McMahon
30 days ago
Issue 4 of Frazzled Lit
@frazzledlit.bsky.social
has landed, and it's a super feast of poetry, short stories, flash fiction and CNF. Tuck into it at
www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha...
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Frazzled Lit *ISSUE 4 OUT NOW*
30 days ago
And just like that, issue 4 is live! We are indebted to all our contributors, our readers, and audience. Thanks to the amazing
@jmcm.bsky.social
for putting together another terrific and most gorgeous issue.
www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha...
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Thrilled to have two poems titled "Self Factory" and "Girl Factory" in the new issue of the splendid
@frazzledlit.bsky.social
💜
#poetry
#poetrysky
Read and listen on here:
www.frazzledlit.com/p/self-facto...
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Two Poems by Özge Lena
Self Factory/Girl Factory
https://www.frazzledlit.com/p/self-factory-girl-factory
29 days ago
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Sean Thomas Dougherty
about 1 month ago
The new issue of Unbroken just dropped with a whole bunch of marvelous prose poems by folks such as Erika DeShay, Gary Finke, Howie Good, Nadja Maril, and Ozge Lena. I have one in there too.
www.theunjournals.com/unbroken48
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Unbroken | Issue 48 | Winter 2026
Prose poems for y'all.
https://www.theunjournals.com/unbroken48
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Studying hard... 💙
#poetry
#politics
#catapoetics
about 1 month ago
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Transmorphing by Özge Lena
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3KGYUKhjCa3gKmYM4rwsuw?si=zKtUA49eSvuXJIQVi3vbag&t=0
about 1 month ago
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Anonymous
about 1 month ago
Iranian women and girls, in memory of Mahsa Amini, demand justice, and are burning a photo of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as an act of defiance. Mahsa's murder by Iran’s morality police sparked Iran's anti-impunity movement “Woman, Life, Freedom.”
#3E
#IranProtests
#womenlifefreedom
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about 1 month ago
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