Kat Lehmann
@songsofkat.bsky.social
Co-EIC @whiptailjournal.bsky.social🦎
Winner, Rattle Chapbook Prize (#haiku)🐦
2025 Ghost City Press microchap 🐦⬛
Other 📚 Stumbling Toward Happiness, Small Stones from the River, Moon Full of Moons 🌚
Ph.D. Biochem. 🦄 https://katlehmann.weebly.com/
Winner, Rattle Chapbook Prize (#haiku)🐦
2025 Ghost City Press microchap 🐦⬛
Other 📚 Stumbling Toward Happiness, Small Stones from the River, Moon Full of Moons 🌚
Ph.D. Biochem. 🦄 https://katlehmann.weebly.com/
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Kat Lehmann
@songsofkat.bsky.social
· Mar 1
no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song
2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner In no matter how it…
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People are receiving their copies of 'no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song' from Rattle. If you feel inclined, and especially if you love it (lol), please add your rating or review on Goodreads. I set up a shiny new page for it! Thanks, and enjoy the #haiku 🐦
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Are we all receiving these weird, likely AI-generated spam pitches? I receive them daily, so many I could use them as wallpaper. And they're kinda hilarious (apparently, I've cracked the code for binding metaphors with molecules). Perhaps they believe that poetry is lucrative? 😂
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Are we all receiving these weird, likely AI-generated spam pitches? I receive them daily, so many I could use them as wallpaper. And they're kinda hilarious (apparently, I've cracked the code for binding metaphors with molecules). Perhaps they believe that poetry is lucrative? 😂
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General Submissions remain closed but we're reopening Pebbles vol. 6 subs till November 30. Send us up to 10 poems, each no more than 5 lines, and/or visuals (haiga, etc.).
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
General Submissions remain closed but we're reopening Pebbles vol. 6 subs till November 30. Send us up to 10 poems, each no more than 5 lines, and/or visuals (haiga, etc.).
My kids were like... you wrote a poem about what? I am thrilled it found a home in ONE ART! Gratitude to editor Mark Danowsky for curating it.
"you are my first and most perfect
scar..."
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#poetry
"you are my first and most perfect
scar..."
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#poetry
Navel Gazing by Kat Lehmann
Navel Gazing You are my first and most perfect scar. As a child I wondered how deep you went. Were you Mariana Trench or river eddy? I would try to unfold you, find the bottom of your wrinkles, unr…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
My kids were like... you wrote a poem about what? I am thrilled it found a home in ONE ART! Gratitude to editor Mark Danowsky for curating it.
"you are my first and most perfect
scar..."
oneartpoetry.com/2025/11/18/n...
#poetry
"you are my first and most perfect
scar..."
oneartpoetry.com/2025/11/18/n...
#poetry
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if she floats, America
- Dan Schwerin, USA
Whiptail Journal, Issue 5, November 2022
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- Dan Schwerin, USA
Whiptail Journal, Issue 5, November 2022
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September 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
if she floats, America
- Dan Schwerin, USA
Whiptail Journal, Issue 5, November 2022
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- Dan Schwerin, USA
Whiptail Journal, Issue 5, November 2022
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From Issue 4, Whiptail Journal, August 2022
winter night trying hard to form words into flowers
- John Pappas, USA
Don't forget to consider poems with the optional them of fours to celebrate our 4th year.
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winter night trying hard to form words into flowers
- John Pappas, USA
Don't forget to consider poems with the optional them of fours to celebrate our 4th year.
Read the Archives | home share.google/2HkZFssCMkT0...
Read the Archives
Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem. Dedicated to single-line poetry. Publishing one-line poems: haiku, senryu, one-line tanka, lyrical, monostich, or experimental and in horizontal, vertical, d...
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October 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
From Issue 4, Whiptail Journal, August 2022
winter night trying hard to form words into flowers
- John Pappas, USA
Don't forget to consider poems with the optional them of fours to celebrate our 4th year.
Read the Archives | home share.google/2HkZFssCMkT0...
winter night trying hard to form words into flowers
- John Pappas, USA
Don't forget to consider poems with the optional them of fours to celebrate our 4th year.
Read the Archives | home share.google/2HkZFssCMkT0...
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while(the clouds turn into rain)the lily blooms
- Norma Bradley, USA
Whiptail Journal, Issue 7, May 2023
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- Norma Bradley, USA
Whiptail Journal, Issue 7, May 2023
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Read the Archives
Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem. Dedicated to single-line poetry. Publishing one-line poems: haiku, senryu, one-line tanka, lyrical, monostich, or experimental and in horizontal, vertical, d...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
while(the clouds turn into rain)the lily blooms
- Norma Bradley, USA
Whiptail Journal, Issue 7, May 2023
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- Norma Bradley, USA
Whiptail Journal, Issue 7, May 2023
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Happy 4th bday to whiptail! We are open for one week and are ready to receive your one-line beauties: poems, hybrids, seqs, & other creations! We love art, haiga, & shahai too! Need a little inspiration? Try the optional theme of FOUR (whatever that means to you). www.whiptailjournal.com/submissions
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Happy 4th bday to whiptail! We are open for one week and are ready to receive your one-line beauties: poems, hybrids, seqs, & other creations! We love art, haiga, & shahai too! Need a little inspiration? Try the optional theme of FOUR (whatever that means to you). www.whiptailjournal.com/submissions
What a special surprise to see this thoughtful and nicely detailed review of 'no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song' (Rattle 2025) in @calyxpress.bsky.social! By the way, I still have books; if anyone is interested in a signed copy, let me know 🐦🌸
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#haiku
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#haiku
No Matter How It Ends a Bluebird's Song by Kat Lehmann - CALYX
This review by Chantelle Flores covers the innovative structure, formatting, and meaning of Kat Lehmann's poetry collection.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
What a special surprise to see this thoughtful and nicely detailed review of 'no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song' (Rattle 2025) in @calyxpress.bsky.social! By the way, I still have books; if anyone is interested in a signed copy, let me know 🐦🌸
www.calyxpress.org/reviews/no-m...
#haiku
www.calyxpress.org/reviews/no-m...
#haiku
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We hope you have been working on the submissions to our 4th anniversary issue. October 21st-27th submission week is approaching.
October 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We hope you have been working on the submissions to our 4th anniversary issue. October 21st-27th submission week is approaching.
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It won't be long before we're open again for submissions. We hope you'll join us in celebrating our 4th anniversary issue by submitting. To celebrate, we'll have an optional theme of anything related to four. See the image for examples.
whiptailjournal.com/submissions
#haiku #mcp #haibun #haiga
whiptailjournal.com/submissions
#haiku #mcp #haibun #haiga
September 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
It won't be long before we're open again for submissions. We hope you'll join us in celebrating our 4th anniversary issue by submitting. To celebrate, we'll have an optional theme of anything related to four. See the image for examples.
whiptailjournal.com/submissions
#haiku #mcp #haibun #haiga
whiptailjournal.com/submissions
#haiku #mcp #haibun #haiga
Gratitude to MacQueen's Quinterly, and Clare in particular, for making space for this fun #haibun "An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory"
Tell me a little about yourself.
common blue damselfly
my name lost
to the river
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Tell me a little about yourself.
common blue damselfly
my name lost
to the river
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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Kat Lehmann: An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory
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September 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Gratitude to MacQueen's Quinterly, and Clare in particular, for making space for this fun #haibun "An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory"
Tell me a little about yourself.
common blue damselfly
my name lost
to the river
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Lehma...
Tell me a little about yourself.
common blue damselfly
my name lost
to the river
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Lehma...
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Whiptail Journal, Issue 12, February 2025
by
Hifsa Ashraf
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Hifsa Ashraf
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August 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 12, February 2025
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Hifsa Ashraf
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Hifsa Ashraf
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Whiptail Journal, Issue 13, June 2025
by Cynthia Hendel
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by Cynthia Hendel
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August 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 13, June 2025
by Cynthia Hendel
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by Cynthia Hendel
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Hope you love the new episode! 💜
August 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Hope you love the new episode! 💜
Their wings stretch with a trust in the invisible as if they know it will hold them...
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Thank you, MacQ!
#haibun #hybrid
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Thank you, MacQ!
#haibun #hybrid
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Kat Lehmann: The Invented Hours
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August 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Their wings stretch with a trust in the invisible as if they know it will hold them...
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Thank you, MacQ!
#haibun #hybrid
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Thank you, MacQ!
#haibun #hybrid
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"Hope is a woman wrapped in flowing cloth. Blindfolded. Sitting on top of the world. She wears the blues of a seamless sky"
A wonderful surge of much-needed hope in this stunning haibun from @songsofkat.bsky.social
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A wonderful surge of much-needed hope in this stunning haibun from @songsofkat.bsky.social
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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Kat Lehmann: Two Days Before She Dies
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August 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
"Hope is a woman wrapped in flowing cloth. Blindfolded. Sitting on top of the world. She wears the blues of a seamless sky"
A wonderful surge of much-needed hope in this stunning haibun from @songsofkat.bsky.social
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A wonderful surge of much-needed hope in this stunning haibun from @songsofkat.bsky.social
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six spruces where astral rhymes are scent
by Jonathan Humphrey
The Whiptail Journal, Issue 8, September 2023
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by Jonathan Humphrey
The Whiptail Journal, Issue 8, September 2023
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August 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
six spruces where astral rhymes are scent
by Jonathan Humphrey
The Whiptail Journal, Issue 8, September 2023
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by Jonathan Humphrey
The Whiptail Journal, Issue 8, September 2023
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Whiptail Journal, Issue 10, June 2024
by Engin Gülez
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by Engin Gülez
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August 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 10, June 2024
by Engin Gülez
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by Engin Gülez
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too much a sunflower to turn too
by Chuck Brickley
Whiptail Journal, Issue 11, November 2024
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by Chuck Brickley
Whiptail Journal, Issue 11, November 2024
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August 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
too much a sunflower to turn too
by Chuck Brickley
Whiptail Journal, Issue 11, November 2024
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by Chuck Brickley
Whiptail Journal, Issue 11, November 2024
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Very happy to be included in Haiku 21.2, which anthologizes English-language #haiku published 2000-2010. This was the 13th haiku of mine that was ever published, and I still really like it! Gratitude to Lee Gurga and Scott Metz.
a comma
becomes a full stop
moonshadows
A Hundred Gourds 4.2 (2015)
a comma
becomes a full stop
moonshadows
A Hundred Gourds 4.2 (2015)
July 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Very happy to be included in Haiku 21.2, which anthologizes English-language #haiku published 2000-2010. This was the 13th haiku of mine that was ever published, and I still really like it! Gratitude to Lee Gurga and Scott Metz.
a comma
becomes a full stop
moonshadows
A Hundred Gourds 4.2 (2015)
a comma
becomes a full stop
moonshadows
A Hundred Gourds 4.2 (2015)
Very happy to be included in Haiku 21.2, which anthologizes English-language #haiku published 2000-2010. This was the 13th haiku of mine that was ever published, and I still really like it! Gratitude to Lee Gurga and Scott Metz.
a comma
becomes a full stop
moonshadows
A Hundred Gourds 4.2 (2015)
a comma
becomes a full stop
moonshadows
A Hundred Gourds 4.2 (2015)
July 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Very happy to be included in Haiku 21.2, which anthologizes English-language #haiku published 2000-2010. This was the 13th haiku of mine that was ever published, and I still really like it! Gratitude to Lee Gurga and Scott Metz.
a comma
becomes a full stop
moonshadows
A Hundred Gourds 4.2 (2015)
a comma
becomes a full stop
moonshadows
A Hundred Gourds 4.2 (2015)
Woo-hoo! Squeaked into the @havehashad.com call this time. What a rush! The most fun I've had submitting.
July 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Woo-hoo! Squeaked into the @havehashad.com call this time. What a rush! The most fun I've had submitting.