Kat Lehmann
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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/
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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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no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song
2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner In no matter how it…
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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
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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
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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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
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if she floats, America

- Dan Schwerin, USA

Whiptail Journal, Issue 5, November 2022

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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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September 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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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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October 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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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October 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
With gratitude to editor Sue Antolin for including my poem in this beautiful issue of Acorn! 🥰 I love the mixing of modern and ancient language in this.

#haiku #wysiwyg
October 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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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
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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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
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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
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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.

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#haiku #mcp #haibun #haiga
September 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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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
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Whiptail Journal, Issue 12, February 2025

by
Hifsa Ashraf

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August 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Whiptail Journal, Issue 13, June 2025

by Cynthia Hendel

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August 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Hope you love the new episode! 💜
August 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Kat Lehmann: The Invented Hours
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August 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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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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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Kat Lehmann: Two Days Before She Dies
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August 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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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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August 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Whiptail Journal, Issue 10, June 2024

by Engin Gülez

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August 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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too much a sunflower to turn too

by Chuck Brickley

Whiptail Journal, Issue 11, November 2024

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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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August 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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)
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)
July 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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