No Rain for Seven New Moons

Özge Lena (Türkiye)

Özge Lena’s poems have appeared in The London Magazine, Abridged, Orbis, 14 Magazine, and elsewhere in various countries including the UK, the USA, Canada, Bangladesh, Iceland, Serbia, and France. In 2023, she was nominated both for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her ecopoem “Undertaker” is forthcoming in Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War Anthology of Scarlet Tanager Books in the US in 2025. Özge's poetry was shortlisted for the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition and the Ralph Angel Poetry Prize in 2021, then for The Plough Poetry Prize in 2023,  and for the Black Cat Poetry Press Nature Prize in 2024.