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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

Poetry · Exile · Silence — The Creative Process

A Conversation with Poet MAJA LUKIC I was born in Croatia, in the former Yugoslavia. We left that country when the civil war broke out, and I grew up in Canada, mostly, with a lot of subsequent moves...

www.creativeprocess.info

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · Apr 28

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.

Sho Poetry Journal

Best New Poets Nominees 2025

Ranudi Gunawardena
Girl Cousins, Pixelated

Maja Lukic
Your Mother Knew Many Words for Beauty and Used All of Them to Call You

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Jaye Kranz @jayekranz.bsky.social · Mar 28

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…

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Jaye Kranz @jayekranz.bsky.social · Mar 29

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

Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Mar 28

Thank you so much!!

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Feb 21

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...

southerninreview.bsky.social

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Feb 20

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

Pine Hills Review @pinehillsreview.bsky.social · Feb 19

“Blue Linoleum” by Bonnie Jill Emanuel

To say I remember it // exactly would be untrue. / Sweet, hard, scuffed blue.

pinehillsreview.com

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Feb 6

"the sun going down—this is how he died, the sun
going down."

Oh, so beautiful 🖤

Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Feb 5

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.

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Feb 5

Thank you Emily ❤️

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · Feb 5

Read Maja’s poems… so beautiful!

Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Feb 5

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.

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Feb 5

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.

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Jan 17

Lovely!! 👏🏻

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Jan 17

Books, books, books!

A Year of Books by Pen America Members.

Cool to see GLITTER🪩CITY on this list.

@penamerica.bsky.social

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A Year of Books By PEN America Members 2024 - PEN America

This year, members of PEN America have published over 100 works, including translation, poetry, essays, and graphic novels.

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Jan 16

Thank you so much!! 🩵

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Jan 15

Thank you, friend 🖤

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · Jan 14

Maja Lukic in Shō No. 6!!

Web features coming soon 👀

Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Jan 14

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 🩵

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Jan 14

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 🩵

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · Jan 5

Shō No. 6 is back from the printer and ready for purchase!

shopoetryjournal.com/product/sho-...

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · Jan 3

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

Winner of the Sita Martin Prize for emerging poets: Maja Lukic, “Your Mother Knew Many Words for Beauty and Used All of Them to Call You”

Winner of the Shō Poetry Prize: Robert Okaji, “The Starlings Were You”

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Dec 14

And what incredible translations they are—I stand in awe ❤️

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Andrea Jurjević @andreajurjevic.bsky.social · Dec 14

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.

Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Dec 3

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...

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Dec 11

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)

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Dec 3

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...

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Nov 21

We have a fall 2024 cover! (Check out the incredible list of contributors.)

The amazing cover artist is Aadila Munshi:

www.aadilamunshi.ca

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