leyla çolpan is a writer and translator based in new york, US and london, UK.

leyla@leylacolpan.com

@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 SpeculatingMagma 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