Announcing our nominations for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award! Dorsey Craft @dorseycraft.bsky.social Maja Lukic @majalukic.bsky.social Nina C. Peláez @ninacpelaez.bsky.social Jessica Nirvana Ram @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social Jeddie Sophronius Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social

Four new Ak'abal translations just went live on the @fourwaybooks.bsky.social translators' page... 💜 Many thanks to @majalukic.bsky.social & the whole crew! Here's one of them! (link to the whole page in comments)

Congrats to our Pushcart nominees! • Jo Bear: “After the Gulls” • Christian J. Collier: “Nocturne” • Erica Dawson: “Portrait of the artist as sonnet for Dickinson’s line A wounded deer—leaps highest—” • Chris Hoshnic: “Event / Response” • Maja Lukic: “Wings of Desire” • Meg Reynolds: “Milkstone”

My new poem in Bennington Review ❤️

I had the pleasure of doing this little interview with Creative Process Podcast recently 🖤 www.creativeprocess.info/writers-inte...

Congratulations to our nominees for the 2025 Best New Poets anthology: Ranudi Gunawardena for “Girls Cousins, Pixelated” and Maja Lukic for “Your Mother Knew Many Words for Beauty and Used All of Them to Call You.” Read both poems online or get yourself a copy of Shō No. 6 at shopoetryjournal.com.

Grateful & honoured to have a poem in the latest issue of the @theflreview.bsky.social Thank you to editor @djpoissant.bsky.social for selecting ‘Afterwords’ & to the team there for all you do. Congrats & with thanks to all the wonderful contributors in this issue. One for the ancestors…

These gems from @majalukic.bsky.social in @newenglandreview.bsky.social ✨✨✨

Ecstatic to have three poems in the new issue of New England Review 🖤

Thanks @southerninreview.bsky.social and thanks especially to Ruth Awad for this feature. At the link, you can read my poem “Sundown” and a little citation from me about the writing of it 🩵 www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...

The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. ♡

"the sun going down—this is how he died, the sun going down." Oh, so beautiful 🖤

Read Maja’s poems… so beautiful!

My poem “Sundown” in the gorgeous new issue of @southerninreview.bsky.social 🩵 All my gratitude to the editors. What a thrill to be included alongside these incredible writers.

Books, books, books! A Year of Books by Pen America Members. Cool to see GLITTER🪩CITY on this list. @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/a-year-of-bo...

Maja Lukic in Shō No. 6!! Web features coming soon 👀

Happy to have two poems in the new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social (No. 6): one for my mom one for a favorite film 👼🪽Thrilled to share that “Your Mother Knew …” is the winner of the Sita Martin Prize for this issue. All my gratitude to the editors for their tireless work 🩵

Shō No. 6 is back from the printer and ready for purchase! shopoetryjournal.com/product/sho-...

Congratulations Maja Lukic and Robert Okaji, winners of our inaugural prizes for Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25)! bit.ly/shono6 @majalukic.bsky.social + @robertokaji.bsky.social

Very grateful to the wonderful @majalukic.bsky.social for featuring these three translations on the Four Way Books Translator's Page. I've been translating Marko Pogačar's work for several years now, and the unexpected logic of his associations never ceases to amaze me. I love translating poetry.

Southern Indiana Review fall 2024 Twenty-seven Contributors Salute, Day 12: Maja Lukic Maja Lukic is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her work has appeared in Narrative, Adroit Journal, Colorado Review, Bennington Review, Image, and Copper Nickel. www.majalukic.com @majalukic113 (X) majal1313 (Instagram)

On the Four Way Books Translator’s Page today: sharing magical prose poems by my favorite Croatian poet Marko Pogačar in gorgeous translation by Andrea Jurjević 🤍 fourwaybooks.com/site/3-poems...

We have a fall 2024 cover! (Check out the incredible list of contributors.) The amazing cover artist is Aadila Munshi: www.aadilamunshi.ca

“You think of it like this. Like some version of the past, / but lasting a very long time.” Jenny George is unreal

Spending the weekend with Larry Levis, elegy, and this poem

Returning to this China Miéville quote: "we live in a utopia: it just isn't ours."