Zuleyha Ozturk is a poet. She is the co-founder of Leavings literary magazine. Her poems have appeared in Adroit, North American Review, Salamander, Nimrod, Northwest Review, Palette, Four Way Review, CALYX, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Tennessee.
POEMS
“Teeth” – The Adroit Journal, Issue Forty-One
“We Fuel Us Clairvoyant” – Small Orange, Winter 2022
“Maximus” – Epiphany, 2022 Feature
“Somedays” – Salamander, Issue 55
“No More Games” – Cream City Review, Volume 46, Number 2
“Landscape of a Bloody Mouth in Pomak” – Cream City Review, Vol. 46, No. 2
“Cherry” – Nimrod International Journal, Spring/Summer 2023, Vol. 66, No. 2
“Ghazal” – Nimrod International Journal, Spring/Summer 2023, Vol. 66, No. 2
“Severn, Maryland” – Four Way Review, Issue 27
“Hyattsville, Maryland” – Four Way Review, Issue 27
“Epithalamion Sealed in Wax” – Palette Poetry, 03/27/23 Feature
“Corpse: of the body, of the core” – SWWIM, 03/30/23 Feature
“Fever Ghazal” – North American Review, Summer 2023, Vol. 308, No. 2
“Mother Song” – The Penn Review, No. 72
“Soma, Turkey” – CALYX Journal, No. 34-2
“Festival of Sacrifice” – Northwest Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, Winter 2024
“Ocean City, Maryland” – Laurel Review, Issue 57.1
“Toms River, New Jersey” – Little Patuxent Review, Issue 36, Summer 2024
“El-Jadida, Morocco” — Beloit Poetry Journal, Vol. 74, No. 1-2
“Waw / و” — Poetry Northwest, Vol. 20, Issue 2
“Chores” — Poetry Northwest, Vol. 20, Issue 2
“August” — Poetry Northwest, Vol. 20, Issue 2
