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Maja Lukić
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Poet 👼 Warren Wilson MFA. Brooklyn, NY.
My new poem in Bennington Review ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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
June 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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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.
April 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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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…
March 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Ecstatic to have three poems in the new issue of New England Review 🖤
March 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ecstatic to have three poems in the new issue of New England Review 🖤
March 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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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February 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. ♡
February 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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"the sun going down—this is how he died, the sun
going down."

Oh, 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.
February 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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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.
February 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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.
February 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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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January 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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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 🩵
January 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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 🩵
January 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Shō No. 6 is back from the printer and ready for purchase!

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January 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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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
January 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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.
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...
December 14, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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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)
December 11, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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...
December 3, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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We have a fall 2024 cover! (Check out the incredible list of contributors.)

The amazing cover artist is Aadila Munshi:

www.aadilamunshi.ca
November 21, 2024 at 10:34 PM
“You think of it like this. Like some version of the past, / but lasting a very long time.”

Jenny George is unreal
November 17, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Spending the weekend with Larry Levis, elegy, and this poem
November 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM
Returning to this China Miéville quote: "we live in a utopia: it just isn't ours."
October 29, 2023 at 11:40 AM