Özge Lena
@lenaozge.bsky.social
Poet with more than a hundred poems published worldwide. Nominated five & shortlisted four times for international poetry prizes. #catapoetics
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Özge Lena
@lenaozge.bsky.social
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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.
#catapoetics #catapoetry #catapoem #catapoet #catastrocene #poetry
#catapoetics #catapoetry #catapoem #catapoet #catastrocene #poetry
December 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Our 7th #yulefolklore tale takes us back to France today on St Nicholas Day and we’ll meet one of his ghastly companions who whip up the tension of the saint’s annual visit.
This one does it literally though, what with his cruel backstory.
Read it, following the link below!
This one does it literally though, what with his cruel backstory.
Read it, following the link below!
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Our 7th #yulefolklore tale takes us back to France today on St Nicholas Day and we’ll meet one of his ghastly companions who whip up the tension of the saint’s annual visit.
This one does it literally though, what with his cruel backstory.
Read it, following the link below!
This one does it literally though, what with his cruel backstory.
Read it, following the link below!
Great news! Delighted to have an acceptance for Issue 4 of @frazzledlit.bsky.social 🤍
www.frazzledlit.com
www.frazzledlit.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Great news! Delighted to have an acceptance for Issue 4 of @frazzledlit.bsky.social 🤍
www.frazzledlit.com
www.frazzledlit.com
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Have you put
The Storms Journal V on your Christmas shopping list? @eatthestorms.com
⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️
Available here 👇
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-shop/
Have you put
The Storms Journal V on your Christmas shopping list? @eatthestorms.com
⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️
Available here 👇
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-shop/
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️
Have you put
The Storms Journal V on your Christmas shopping list? @eatthestorms.com
⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️
Available here 👇
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-shop/
Have you put
The Storms Journal V on your Christmas shopping list? @eatthestorms.com
⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️🎄⚡️
Available here 👇
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-shop/
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“Holle-peter, as well as Hersche, Harsche, Hescheklas, Euprecht, Eupper…, is among the names given to the muffled servitor who goes about in Holle's train at the time of the winter solstice”
(Grimm)
🎨 Valin Mattheis
#FolkloreThursday
(Grimm)
🎨 Valin Mattheis
#FolkloreThursday
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“Holle-peter, as well as Hersche, Harsche, Hescheklas, Euprecht, Eupper…, is among the names given to the muffled servitor who goes about in Holle's train at the time of the winter solstice”
(Grimm)
🎨 Valin Mattheis
#FolkloreThursday
(Grimm)
🎨 Valin Mattheis
#FolkloreThursday
In 2025, I've almost 100 poems published across many countries, two Pushcart Prize, an Editor's Choice, a Spiritual Poetry Award, and Best of the Net nominations, a university conference on #catapoetics in London...
This has absolutely been my year of #poetry :)
Cheers to a better one! 🥂
This has absolutely been my year of #poetry :)
Cheers to a better one! 🥂
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In 2025, I've almost 100 poems published across many countries, two Pushcart Prize, an Editor's Choice, a Spiritual Poetry Award, and Best of the Net nominations, a university conference on #catapoetics in London...
This has absolutely been my year of #poetry :)
Cheers to a better one! 🥂
This has absolutely been my year of #poetry :)
Cheers to a better one! 🥂
"I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again."
Anna Akhmatova
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again."
Anna Akhmatova
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again."
Anna Akhmatova
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again."
Anna Akhmatova
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There is a Yuletide tradition in France telling of the witch La Guillaneu riding her headless fairy steed through French winter nights.
But follow us to Brittany today for our 2nd #Yulefolklore tale, where La Guillaneu takes on a quite different guise!
Link in the comments
🎨 Ari-Matti Toivonen
But follow us to Brittany today for our 2nd #Yulefolklore tale, where La Guillaneu takes on a quite different guise!
Link in the comments
🎨 Ari-Matti Toivonen
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
There is a Yuletide tradition in France telling of the witch La Guillaneu riding her headless fairy steed through French winter nights.
But follow us to Brittany today for our 2nd #Yulefolklore tale, where La Guillaneu takes on a quite different guise!
Link in the comments
🎨 Ari-Matti Toivonen
But follow us to Brittany today for our 2nd #Yulefolklore tale, where La Guillaneu takes on a quite different guise!
Link in the comments
🎨 Ari-Matti Toivonen
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Here is my Pushcart nominated poem "And the Oscar Goes to" ⚡
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Here is my Pushcart nominated poem "And the Oscar Goes to" ⚡
"Denominator" is in Poems Revived! 🌱 Thank you David Hanlon for giving new roots to my poem. #poetry #poetrysky
(Originally published in Abridged 0-100: From under the Floorboards) @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
(Originally published in Abridged 0-100: From under the Floorboards) @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Denominator" is in Poems Revived! 🌱 Thank you David Hanlon for giving new roots to my poem. #poetry #poetrysky
(Originally published in Abridged 0-100: From under the Floorboards) @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
(Originally published in Abridged 0-100: From under the Floorboards) @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
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Congrats to our 6 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees:
Chris Jones
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
Maire T Robinson
Jo Morrigan Black
@smcnicholl.bsky.social
@lenaozge.bsky.social
& huge cheers to all our stars @eatthestorms.com V
What a fab journey, myself & Dami couldn't be more proud of you all ⚡️🥳⚡️
Chris Jones
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
Maire T Robinson
Jo Morrigan Black
@smcnicholl.bsky.social
@lenaozge.bsky.social
& huge cheers to all our stars @eatthestorms.com V
What a fab journey, myself & Dami couldn't be more proud of you all ⚡️🥳⚡️
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Congrats to our 6 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees:
Chris Jones
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
Maire T Robinson
Jo Morrigan Black
@smcnicholl.bsky.social
@lenaozge.bsky.social
& huge cheers to all our stars @eatthestorms.com V
What a fab journey, myself & Dami couldn't be more proud of you all ⚡️🥳⚡️
Chris Jones
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
Maire T Robinson
Jo Morrigan Black
@smcnicholl.bsky.social
@lenaozge.bsky.social
& huge cheers to all our stars @eatthestorms.com V
What a fab journey, myself & Dami couldn't be more proud of you all ⚡️🥳⚡️
Over the moon to be nominated for Pushcart Prize by @eatthestorms.com Thank you so much Damien & Rhona 💙⚡ #poetry #pushcartprize #poetrysky
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Over the moon to be nominated for Pushcart Prize by @eatthestorms.com Thank you so much Damien & Rhona 💙⚡ #poetry #pushcartprize #poetrysky
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November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Delighted that my poem "How Calliope Lost Her Tongue" is published in the Fall 2025 "Voice" issue of The Branches Journal. Print in New York City. #poetry
thebranchesjournal.com
thebranchesjournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Delighted that my poem "How Calliope Lost Her Tongue" is published in the Fall 2025 "Voice" issue of The Branches Journal. Print in New York City. #poetry
thebranchesjournal.com
thebranchesjournal.com
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Thank you all so much for embracing our 5th Storm 🙏
Sharing just a few comments in the video below.
Team @rhonagreene.bsky.social and Damien Donnelly have truly had the best time curating this issue. 🙏🎉
If you don’t have your Storm yet, buy your copy here…
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
Sharing just a few comments in the video below.
Team @rhonagreene.bsky.social and Damien Donnelly have truly had the best time curating this issue. 🙏🎉
If you don’t have your Storm yet, buy your copy here…
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Thank you all so much for embracing our 5th Storm 🙏
Sharing just a few comments in the video below.
Team @rhonagreene.bsky.social and Damien Donnelly have truly had the best time curating this issue. 🙏🎉
If you don’t have your Storm yet, buy your copy here…
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
Sharing just a few comments in the video below.
Team @rhonagreene.bsky.social and Damien Donnelly have truly had the best time curating this issue. 🙏🎉
If you don’t have your Storm yet, buy your copy here…
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
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The beautiful slick magazine, The Storms, from Dublin arrived. They paid very well for the use of images of two of my paintings. Thank goodness for organizations that support the arts. #painting #art @eatthestorms.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The beautiful slick magazine, The Storms, from Dublin arrived. They paid very well for the use of images of two of my paintings. Thank goodness for organizations that support the arts. #painting #art @eatthestorms.com
"I believe the world is beautiful
and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone."
#poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone."
#poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"I believe the world is beautiful
and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone."
#poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone."
#poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Out winter anthology from last year in paperback and hardback with artwork by Emma Bissonnet 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Out winter anthology from last year in paperback and hardback with artwork by Emma Bissonnet 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Books have a magical way of pulling us into their worlds, making reality fade. A little help for my eyes feels like a small price to pay for such wondrous escapes. Keep reading, fellow dreamers! ✨ #booksky #books
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Books have a magical way of pulling us into their worlds, making reality fade. A little help for my eyes feels like a small price to pay for such wondrous escapes. Keep reading, fellow dreamers! ✨ #booksky #books
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Proof copy is here, and she’s lovely, so let this be a little reminder that MORE FLOWERS is out with @triohousepress.org in less than 3 months! You can pre-order at the link in the replies or wherever books are sold!
Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼
Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼
November 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Proof copy is here, and she’s lovely, so let this be a little reminder that MORE FLOWERS is out with @triohousepress.org in less than 3 months! You can pre-order at the link in the replies or wherever books are sold!
Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼
Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼
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You can listen to me reading the poem: the880.substack.com/p/the-starbe...
November 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
You can listen to me reading the poem: the880.substack.com/p/the-starbe...