leyla çolpan is a writer and translator based in new york, US and london, UK.
@leylacolpan / @leylacolpan.bsky.social
praise
"Çolpan has asserted a gaze that is a live rail for the politics of language in our times." - Ray Antrobus, 2023/4 Magma poetry competition
"Leyla Çolpan contends not only with the physical universe and a human's history of ideas about such a universe, but also enacts that essential gesture of all real poetry: to weave, in language, the motion of sound-as-energy as it enters matter to know." - Kazim Ali, 2020 Gulf Coast prize for poetry
select poems
2024
Please Refrain from Speculating — Magma Poetry 89: Performance
Note on Passing [Say there are two kinds of hole] — Magma Poetry 88: Underworlds
2023
Note on Passing [But you knew it would be like this] — Propel Magazine 8
2022
Conference of the Birds (excerpt), The Adroit Journal 41
2021
If winters were of two kinds, Best New Poets 2020, UVA Press
2020 and earlier
What Passes & What Passes Through, Ghost City Press 2020
Goethe's Theory of the Simorgh, Gulf Coast 33(1)
host object, Changing Names, & to lift again, Berkely Poetry Review 51 [x]
Keep What You Have, Columbia Journal, Special Issue: Loneliness
With What Eyes, Intercessor, & Alaygeyik, The Adroit Journal 30