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/
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? 😂
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)
Ocean Ancient and Evolving is included in the FREE downloadable sudo-ku micro-chap "to wade through the wind as a night" (Ghost City Press, 2025) ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
The virgin GR page is just sad sad sad... www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... 🐦⬛
#multi-haiku #haiku
The virgin GR page is just sad sad sad... www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... 🐦⬛
#multi-haiku #haiku
July 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Ocean Ancient and Evolving is included in the FREE downloadable sudo-ku micro-chap "to wade through the wind as a night" (Ghost City Press, 2025) ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
The virgin GR page is just sad sad sad... www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... 🐦⬛
#multi-haiku #haiku
The virgin GR page is just sad sad sad... www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... 🐦⬛
#multi-haiku #haiku
I'm receiving queries about how to get a copy of my new Rattle chapbook. For those interested, copies are available through only me and Rattle. If you would like a copy from me (signed), dm :)
April 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I'm receiving queries about how to get a copy of my new Rattle chapbook. For those interested, copies are available through only me and Rattle. If you would like a copy from me (signed), dm :)
There's no shortage of darkness these days, but there's moments of light to be found. This cover reminds me that spring is finally here. 🌸 Gratitude to all who have supported this journey. Thanks to @rattlepoetry.bsky.social, @timothygreen.bsky.social, and to all who have reviewed on Goodreads.🐦
March 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
There's no shortage of darkness these days, but there's moments of light to be found. This cover reminds me that spring is finally here. 🌸 Gratitude to all who have supported this journey. Thanks to @rattlepoetry.bsky.social, @timothygreen.bsky.social, and to all who have reviewed on Goodreads.🐦
14yo and I decided to make homemade bread and homemade butter tonight. This was a deliciously bad decision for me (off to walk on the treadmill for a while).
March 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
14yo and I decided to make homemade bread and homemade butter tonight. This was a deliciously bad decision for me (off to walk on the treadmill for a while).
The bluebird is here...or not here? Thanks to @rattlepoetry.bsky.social for selecting my contemporary #haiku manuscript for the 2024 chapbook award and to Tim Green for his work bringing it into the world! The weeping cherry by Rachel Bingaman looks great on the cover. Recommended by Oppie Otterfox!
February 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The bluebird is here...or not here? Thanks to @rattlepoetry.bsky.social for selecting my contemporary #haiku manuscript for the 2024 chapbook award and to Tim Green for his work bringing it into the world! The weeping cherry by Rachel Bingaman looks great on the cover. Recommended by Oppie Otterfox!
My dad in his 20s!
February 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My dad in his 20s!
Quick backup of some recently found childhood photos
February 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Quick backup of some recently found childhood photos
Such an incredible honor to be a part of this fabulous chapbook series. Counting the days!
February 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Such an incredible honor to be a part of this fabulous chapbook series. Counting the days!
Some memorabilia came in the mail today
February 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Some memorabilia came in the mail today
More kitten for those who need it.
February 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
More kitten for those who need it.
A kitten update for those who need it (hint: we all need it)
February 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A kitten update for those who need it (hint: we all need it)
Result: did an adult do this or a toddler? Good thing she says she doesn't care what it looks like.
February 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Result: did an adult do this or a toddler? Good thing she says she doesn't care what it looks like.
A couple months ago I was shopping for holiday gifts when I found the perfect bluebird necklace to celebrate my forthcoming Rattle chapbook "no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song"...then the clasp broke, so I reached out to Baked Beads who replaced it for free. Happy to have my bluebird back!
January 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
A couple months ago I was shopping for holiday gifts when I found the perfect bluebird necklace to celebrate my forthcoming Rattle chapbook "no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song"...then the clasp broke, so I reached out to Baked Beads who replaced it for free. Happy to have my bluebird back!
I'm happy to be in the latest antantantantant along with Itami Kimoko (trans. Hiroaki Sato), Melissa Allen, Jon Cone, Richard Gilbert, Chris Gordon (+editor..thank you!), Jennifer Hambrick, John Martone, Scott Metz, and Michael O'Brien, each with several pages of poems. Here's some of mine below.
January 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm happy to be in the latest antantantantant along with Itami Kimoko (trans. Hiroaki Sato), Melissa Allen, Jon Cone, Richard Gilbert, Chris Gordon (+editor..thank you!), Jennifer Hambrick, John Martone, Scott Metz, and Michael O'Brien, each with several pages of poems. Here's some of mine below.
Mail from Japan is never bad when you're a haiku poet
January 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Mail from Japan is never bad when you're a haiku poet
You put the lime in the coconut...back from a little getaway to St Thomas, St John, and Water Island. A few days of snorkeling, iguanas, and rum.
December 31, 2024 at 5:39 PM
You put the lime in the coconut...back from a little getaway to St Thomas, St John, and Water Island. A few days of snorkeling, iguanas, and rum.
My multi-ku (multi-#haiku) experiment "In Concert," which is a winner of the 2024 Trailblazer Contest. The piece became an exploration of classic kigo (season words) and can be read multiple ways.
December 19, 2024 at 7:45 PM
My multi-ku (multi-#haiku) experiment "In Concert," which is a winner of the 2024 Trailblazer Contest. The piece became an exploration of classic kigo (season words) and can be read multiple ways.
Never miss the opportunity to do the Escher thing.
December 17, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Never miss the opportunity to do the Escher thing.
Sharing my old pinned post...'no matter how it ends a bluebird's song' is next in the @rattlepoetry.bsky.social chapbook queue (!) and will be sent to Rattle subscribers with the spring 2025 issue. It's starting to feel more real now but won't entirely until I hold a copy 🐦
December 13, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Sharing my old pinned post...'no matter how it ends a bluebird's song' is next in the @rattlepoetry.bsky.social chapbook queue (!) and will be sent to Rattle subscribers with the spring 2025 issue. It's starting to feel more real now but won't entirely until I hold a copy 🐦
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ10/Lehma...
Published in MacQueen’s Quinterly 10 (2021)
Published in MacQueen’s Quinterly 10 (2021)
December 13, 2024 at 4:45 AM
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ10/Lehma...
Published in MacQueen’s Quinterly 10 (2021)
Published in MacQueen’s Quinterly 10 (2021)