Romana Iorga

News



I’m thrilled to have new poems coming out
in Sonora Review, LIT Magazine,
and The Manhattan Review🍃
Excited to announce that my new
chapbook Witness Protection
won the Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition😍🍃
“He Came Forth Like a New Beginning”
in SWWIM✨
“[Be modest now, like a thing]”
in SLANT✨
“I’ve Wanted to Be Transparent for So Long”
in GRIST✨
“The Amnesiac’s Guide to Memory”
in Tar River Poetry✨
A translation from Leonard Tuchilatu
in Cider Press Review✨
“Blueprint” in
Berkeley Poetry Review✨
“Flood” in
Grub Street Literary Magazine✨
“Gossip” in
Berkeley Poetry Review✨
SWWIM features
“Minotaur” for their #tbt✨
“Visitation” in the 20th anniversary issue
of Halfway Down the Stairs✨
Three translations from Leonard Tuchilatu
in the Romanian supplement
of The High Window✨
My chapbook a woman made entirely of air
is available for purchase here😍✨
My poetry collection Temporary Skin
is available for purchase here😍✨
“Verdict”
in The Cortland Review✨
“Alternative Fact Emporium”
in Delta Poetry Review✨
Psaltery & Lyre:
Romana Iorga interviews Violeta Garcia-Mendoza✨
“Inimă / Heart”
in Gulf Goast Journal✨
“Metamorphoses”
in Whale Road Review✨
“Bread”
featured on Poetry Daily✨
“This Silence Is the Largest I Could Find”
in the Potomac Review✨
“The Baby”
in The Nation✨
“Late Poem: A Cento”
& “Fog Has the Shape of Those We Loved”
in Tupelo Quarterly✨
“Sweetness, Time”
in Prime Number Magazine✨
“Waiting for Engraftment”
in Harpur Palate✨
“Cento with Punctured Moon
and Thunderstorm” in Faultline✨
Translation from Leonard Tuchilatu
in Poet Lore✨
West Trestle Review:
Kelly R. Samuels interviews Romana Iorga✨
West Trestle Review:
Romana Iorga interviews Kelly R. Samuels✨
“Square Lament”
in Up the Staircase Quarterly✨
“For Someone Who Listens”
in Midway Journal✨
“i have two DNAs one belongs to my old”
in Blood Orange Review✨
“Avalon”
in the Nūr Mélange ghazal anthology✨
“Attempt at Order”
in Action, Spectacle✨
“I Was Afraid of Opening My Mouth”
in The Indianapolis Review✨
“Survival Instinct”
in The Shore✨
Five poems
in the Spoon River Poetry Review✨
“what short wicks / we fuel with our blood”
in South Carolina Review✨
“I Should Have Been a Ventriloquist”
in RHINO Poetry✨
“The Mirror”
in Cola Literary Review✨
“I Take the Moon Like a Moose for a Walk”
in Lake Effect✨
“Per Aspera ad Astra”
in Witchery (issue 3, summer 2023)✨
“Reluctant Panegyric”
in South Florida Poetry Journal
(scroll down or search by title/name)✨
“Transfiguration: A Cento”
in Bracken✨
“About Cement”
& “What It Means to Look Back”
in Saranac Review✨
“Answers to Y or N Questions”
in The Boiler✨
“I Love the Dark Hours of My Being”
in Redivider✨
“The Other Side”
in Sweet: A Literary Confection✨
“Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima, Proxima Culpa” & “Confabulation of the Self
with the Self” in Guesthouse✨
“Doppelgänger”
in West Trestle Review✨
Mud Season Review: Malisa Garlieb interviews Romana Iorga✨
Three poems in Mud Season Review✨
“Mnemonics”
in Tupelo Quarterly✨
“Hell Hath No Fury” & “Blue”
in Sundog Lit✨
“Hunger”
in Rust & Moth✨
“Shadow Children”
in Bear Review✨
“Narrow like Planks of Wood, like Chinks
in the Armor” in Split Rock Review✨
“Infection” & “What She Said”
in Up the Staircase Quarterly✨
Rappahannock Review:
Contributor Spotlight✨
“From One Leaf to Another”
in Rappahannock Review✨
“Listen”
in Psaltery & Lyre✨
“Dictionary”
in RADAR Poetry✨
“Cargo” & “Forgive Me: A Cento”
in Tinderbox Poetry Journal✨
“Writing Yourself Out”
in Thimble Magazine✨
“Nothing Left to Do”
in American Literary Review✨
“Déjà vu”
in Lunch Ticket✨
“The Snare”
in Washington Square Review✨
“Falling Asleep with Carpenter Bees”
in Cagibi✨
“Fine, Then” & “Four Nightmares”
in The Normal School✨