Maja Lukić

Thank you ❤️❤️

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.

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

Thanks for sharing these amazing poems with us! ❤️

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)

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.

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 ❤️

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...

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

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

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 ✨✨✨

Thank you so much!!

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 🖤

Thank you Emily ❤️

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.

Lovely!! 👏🏻

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.

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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Thank you so much!! 🩵

Thank you, friend 🖤

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!

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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”

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

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

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.

Poet Maja Lukic

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)