i'm leyla çolpan
i'm a writer and translator based in london, UK and new york, US
here are things people say about my poems
"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
here is some of my work available online
2024
Please Refrain from Speculating, Magma Poetry 89: Performance [x]
Note on Passing, Magma Poetry 88: Underworlds
2023
Note on Passing, 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, collaboration with Sasha Barile
Goethe's Theory of the Simorgh, Gulf Coast 33(1)
host object, Changing Names, & to lift again, BPR 51 [x]
Keep What You Have, Columbia Journal, Special Issue: Loneliness
With What Eyes, Intercessor, & Alaygeyik, The Adroit Journal 30