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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Read it, people!
An ekphrastic #haibun that I think stands on its own without the painting (although the painting is shown too).
"Two Days Before She Dies" in MacQueen's Quinterly 29 (2025)
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Lehma...
"Two Days Before She Dies" in MacQueen's Quinterly 29 (2025)
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Lehma...
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Kat Lehmann: Two Days Before She Dies
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December 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Read it, people!
An ekphrastic #haibun that I think stands on its own without the painting (although the painting is shown too).
"Two Days Before She Dies" in MacQueen's Quinterly 29 (2025)
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Lehma...
"Two Days Before She Dies" in MacQueen's Quinterly 29 (2025)
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Lehma...
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Kat Lehmann: Two Days Before She Dies
www.macqueensquinterly.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
An ekphrastic #haibun that I think stands on its own without the painting (although the painting is shown too).
"Two Days Before She Dies" in MacQueen's Quinterly 29 (2025)
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Lehma...
"Two Days Before She Dies" in MacQueen's Quinterly 29 (2025)
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Lehma...
Here's another recently published #haibun... this one was really fun to write!
"An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory" published in MacQueen's Quinterly 30 (2025)
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Lehma...
"An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory" published in MacQueen's Quinterly 30 (2025)
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Lehma...
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Kat Lehmann: An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory
www.macqueensquinterly.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Here's another recently published #haibun... this one was really fun to write!
"An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory" published in MacQueen's Quinterly 30 (2025)
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Lehma...
"An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory" published in MacQueen's Quinterly 30 (2025)
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Lehma...
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Powerful and unsettling work.
My #haibun in the latest Contemporary Haibun Online... thanks to editor Terri French for including it!
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Kat Lehmann: She Lives in the Town Where Her Car Broke Down - contemporary haibun online
Kat Lehmann She Lives in the Town Where Her Car Broke Down I offer to take her bag of empty cans to the recycling bin. She declines quietly, her brown eyes assessing me. I move on. I know the script. ...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Powerful and unsettling work.
27th HIA Haiku Contest Honorable Mention, selected by Toshio Kimura www.haiku-hia.com/en_contest/t...
as if
no one knows
fawn season
#haiku
as if
no one knows
fawn season
#haiku
The 27th HIA Haiku Contest Prize Winners - HIA / Haiku International Association
HIAは世界中で詠まれ親しまれてているHAIKUと日本の俳句の国際交流をお手伝いします。
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December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
27th HIA Haiku Contest Honorable Mention, selected by Toshio Kimura www.haiku-hia.com/en_contest/t...
as if
no one knows
fawn season
#haiku
as if
no one knows
fawn season
#haiku
My #haibun in the latest Contemporary Haibun Online... thanks to editor Terri French for including it!
contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...
contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...
Kat Lehmann: She Lives in the Town Where Her Car Broke Down - contemporary haibun online
Kat Lehmann She Lives in the Town Where Her Car Broke Down I offer to take her bag of empty cans to the recycling bin. She declines quietly, her brown eyes assessing me. I move on. I know the script. ...
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December 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
My #haibun in the latest Contemporary Haibun Online... thanks to editor Terri French for including it!
contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...
contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...
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Read the beautiful poemword or one word poem in the latest Issue of Whiptail.
November 2025 Issue 14 Whiptail.pdf share.google/O70bDsceWeKl...
Consider writing your own poemword.
Aram Saroyan and the Art of the One-Word Poem | The MIT Press Reader share.google/ZcGOhk4WteuA...
November 2025 Issue 14 Whiptail.pdf share.google/O70bDsceWeKl...
Consider writing your own poemword.
Aram Saroyan and the Art of the One-Word Poem | The MIT Press Reader share.google/ZcGOhk4WteuA...
Aram Saroyan and the Art of the One-Word Poem
“In effect the single word is a new reading process; like electricity — instant and continuous.”
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December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Read the beautiful poemword or one word poem in the latest Issue of Whiptail.
November 2025 Issue 14 Whiptail.pdf share.google/O70bDsceWeKl...
Consider writing your own poemword.
Aram Saroyan and the Art of the One-Word Poem | The MIT Press Reader share.google/ZcGOhk4WteuA...
November 2025 Issue 14 Whiptail.pdf share.google/O70bDsceWeKl...
Consider writing your own poemword.
Aram Saroyan and the Art of the One-Word Poem | The MIT Press Reader share.google/ZcGOhk4WteuA...
My #haibun in the latest Contemporary Haibun Online... thanks to editor Terri French for including it contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...
Kat Lehmann: She Lives in the Town Where Her Car Broke Down - contemporary haibun online
Kat Lehmann She Lives in the Town Where Her Car Broke Down I offer to take her bag of empty cans to the recycling bin. She declines quietly, her brown eyes assessing me. I move on. I know the script. ...
contemporaryhaibunonline.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
My #haibun in the latest Contemporary Haibun Online... thanks to editor Terri French for including it contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...
Reposted by Kat Lehmann
Our 4th anniversary issue is launched featuring mark meyer’s cover art, with a potpourri of one-line poems and works that contain them, including hybrids, sequences, haiga, and concretes! Thanks to everyone who submitted. We hope you enjoy the issue!
PDF:
www.whiptailjournal.com/_files/ugd/6...
PDF:
www.whiptailjournal.com/_files/ugd/6...
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Our 4th anniversary issue is launched featuring mark meyer’s cover art, with a potpourri of one-line poems and works that contain them, including hybrids, sequences, haiga, and concretes! Thanks to everyone who submitted. We hope you enjoy the issue!
PDF:
www.whiptailjournal.com/_files/ugd/6...
PDF:
www.whiptailjournal.com/_files/ugd/6...
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? 😂
Reposted by Kat Lehmann
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..."
oneartpoetry.com/2025/11/18/n...
#poetry
"you are my first and most perfect
scar..."
oneartpoetry.com/2025/11/18/n...
#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
Read the Archives | home share.google/IFmdyYFnhc78...
- Dan Schwerin, USA
Whiptail Journal, Issue 5, November 2022
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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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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...
Reposted by Kat Lehmann
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
Read the Archives | home share.google/yzkCZVZpUNho...
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 🐦🌸
www.calyxpress.org/reviews/no-m...
#haiku
www.calyxpress.org/reviews/no-m...
#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.
www.calyxpress.org
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
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...
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Kat Lehmann: An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory
www.macqueensquinterly.com
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...
Reposted by Kat Lehmann
Whiptail Journal, Issue 12, February 2025
by
Hifsa Ashraf
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by
Hifsa Ashraf
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August 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 12, February 2025
by
Hifsa Ashraf
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by
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! 💜