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Maja Lukić

@majalukic.bsky.social
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Poet 👼 Warren Wilson MFA. Brooklyn, NY.

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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
Shō Poetry Journal's nominees for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award. Three different Sho Poetry Journal covers in a vertical column on the left. Listed in a wider column on the right are the nominees with circle-cut author photos, poet names, and poem titles.
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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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Four Poems by Humberto Akʼabal translated from the Spanish by Michael Bazzett – Four Way Books
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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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)
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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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”
Yellow background with red strip. Text lists Shō Poetry Journal’s nominees for the Pushcart Prize Vol. LI. Two vertical strips on the left show cover art for the two issues from which work is nominated.
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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My new poem in Bennington Review ❤️
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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I had the pleasure of doing this little interview with Creative Process Podcast recently 🖤 www.creativeprocess.info/writers-inte...
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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...
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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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.
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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 · 28/03/2025
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 · 29/03/2025
These gems from @majalukic.bsky.social in @newenglandreview.bsky.social ✨✨✨
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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Ecstatic to have three poems in the new issue of New England Review 🖤
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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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...
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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. ♡
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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"the sun going down—this is how he died, the sun going down." Oh, so beautiful 🖤
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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Read Maja’s poems… so beautiful!
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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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...
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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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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Maja Lukic in Shō No. 6!! Web features coming soon 👀
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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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 · 05/01/2025
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 · 03/01/2025
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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Andrea Jurjević @andreajurjevic.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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.
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SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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)
Poet Maja Lukic
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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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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SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
“You think of it like this. Like some version of the past, / but lasting a very long time.” Jenny George is unreal
August
You know you will die, of course you do.
But you picture it as a place you've been before, perhaps many years ago, as a child.
Old floorboards worn smooth, punctuated by nails.
The corner desk with all the small drawers.
The others are here somewhere too. In the kitchen, or out on the porch.
A meadow slopes down to the lake, with a path mowed through it.
In the daytime, yellow butterflies blink over the grass.
At night, the moon
closer than you ve ever seen—
And the bedsheets holding a faint odor of the lake.
You think of it like this. Like some version of the past, but lasting a very long time.
You imagine you're ready. You have your little shovel and pail.
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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Spending the weekend with Larry Levis, elegy, and this poem
A body wishes to be held, & held, & what
Can you do about that?
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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Returning to this China Miéville quote: "we live in a utopia: it just isn't ours."
It is not as if the world has not long, long been one in which vast numbers live in dystopian depredation. The horizon is more visible now to many who had thought themselves insulated, if they thought about it at all. And dystopia for some is utopia for others. To repeat something I have said elsewhere, we live in a utopia: it just isn't ours.
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