Lucien Zell

Born in LA, raised in Seattle, Lucien Zell has lived in Prague for the past twenty-five years. His writing has appeared in New Orleans Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Tikkun. He's published five poetry books, most recently Tiny Kites (Dos Madres) https://www.dosmadres.com/shop/tiny-kites-by-lucien-zell/. An alum of the Community of Writers, Zell received their 2022 Galway Kinnell Fellowship. He hosts an international online poetry discussion group called Poetry Junkies http://www.poetryjunkies.com and serves as the founding director of Moving Center, https://mclf.eu/, a literary festival in Prague. Besides poetry, he's a prolific singer-songwriter https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k0t10UHvWg4W03o12kPX378bOzhaDoWag and photographer https://babylonradio.com/moving-towards-vanishing-an-interview-with-poet-photographer-lucien-zell/. Zell is currently seeking an agent and publisher for his Holocaust novel The Rabbi of Auschwitz.

further links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csol50Sa2Ro&ab_channel=EarthJamMusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MesUh3UhshY&ab_channel=LucienZell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxValbfUpJA&ab_channel=DanSenn

https://www.tikkun.org/the-wonder-eclipse/

https://www.buddhistpoetryreview.org/archive/issue-two/lucien-zell

https://www.bodyliterature.com/2020/09/23/intricate-and-colorful-patterns-in-memory-of-john-white/

Poem: Vincent in Hiroshima

May 20, 2026June 9, 2025 Lucien Zell

Vincent in Hiroshima “A work of art is a corner of creation viewed through a temperament.”—Emile Zola I. Daubigny’s Garden, a late masterpiece of Vincent van Gogh, painted in July 1890 (the same month he died), now hangs in Hiroshima. Talk about ghosts of the blast. Beauty clings to Horror, and still clings, even when … Read more