Kat Lehmann

Thank you!

Happy bday! Here’s one just published in Modern Haiku 🎻

Gratitude to editor Roberta Beary for including my haibun “Body Work” in the latest Modern Haiku 🎻 "Body Work I am a table. This woman loves the table. Her octopus hands. She ensures that nothing heavy is placed on me. Every knot is polished into yes with the scent of a ripe orange grove. The initials of old lovers wilt like a willow no one owns. resting pulse a thicket of swaying sea grass Her tentacles bend and shape me into something new. Curved ribs. Scrolled neck. Arched back. No longer a table, I pluck what I learned of her water sounds. And float in her ink cloud as the tides pull me under. trigger points loosening a lower octave of violin"

Gratitude to editor Roberta Beary for including my #haibun “Body Work” in the latest Modern Haiku 🎻

Same! Thanks for showing there is some hope on the horizon! 🌸

Oh, let’s hope so! Menopause has been awful for me for sleep and refractory scale numbers. I haven’t tried a weighted vest or backpack though. Congrats on your success!

Big congrats! I was a rockstar sleeper until a couple years ago. The thing that helped me was a magnesium supplement. This is after trying many other things. Good luck!

Thanks for letting me know...I hope you enjoy it! :)

Congrats! Glad you enjoyed 'no matter how it ends a blurbird's song' (I'm assuming that's the one 😉). Happy new year!

We were just behind a plow / salt truck that had written on the back "Stay back 300 feet." I said, isn't that basically a 30-story building resting on its side? A couple of city blocks, at least? Who could even read it?

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

Thank you so much, Kris! I'm glad it found a home with you. Happy holidays!

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...

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...

Powerful and unsettling work.

Thank you for sharing it, Kris! Not easy to write these things.

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。

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

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. ...

My #haibun in the latest Contemporary Haibun Online... thanks to editor Terri French for including it!

contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...

This is great...thanks, Anette! 🥰 @tanpoponotokei50.bsky.social

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.”

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...

Your comment is much appreciated, Eve!

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. ...

My #haibun in the latest Contemporary Haibun Online... thanks to editor Terri French for including it contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...

It's deserved! Best of luck!

whiptail journal's 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!

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...

Well maybe there is an increased awareness about creative writing 🌸 Hard to know!

Haha right? I've heard about other poets getting them too. Just wondering if we are ALL receiving these. Too funny.

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? 😂

Autumn trees with a banner over them reading: "Submissions for Pebbles vol. 6 extended till 11/30. Send up to 10 poems | 1 - 5 lines each

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.).

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…

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

Thanks so much! It's a thrill to see this poem in the wonderful ONE ART! 😍