Evalyn Lee

@evalynlee

Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood

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Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· 18d

Not to complain but I miss the rain. #VisualJournal

A bright green leaf covered with rain drops shimmering against a dark grey & pebbled ground.

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· 21d

Hugs to the Universe … #VisualJournal #StreetArt

Bright blue graffiti words on a white wall that read in loopy handwriting: “when you read this .. Smile’ —QM

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· 22d

Found #poem #Poetry #InMotion

A poem burned into in three planks attached to a street lamp in Battersea reads: “A picture says a 1000 words/but metaphors are real/They Feel Joy & hurt & read/ This poem by St Mary’s Church//work for equality/don’t ignore poverty/wear their shoes/and pay your dues//Cos beyond bone & flesh/
We are just metaphor/
So who can you/
Make life better for?”

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· 23d

An illustration from Arnold Lobel’s Frog & Toad series where Frog & Toad a
are walking together in the windy grass with a ball of string in Toad’s hand and Frog carrying a kite.

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· 27d

Thought for the day: ‘Hope above all is a faith in our capacity to act together to make change. To do this we need to be bold.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

A white card with the words: ‘Hope above all is a faith in our capacity to act together to make change. To do this we need to be bold.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Jul 11

Hugs & #Hope & little #NYC Vision to #poets, #writers #artists & #journalists who are busy imagining a better world. #StreetArt

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Jul 4

Thanking #JamesBaldwin for all his wisdom & the gift of the insights of his writing & civil rights work #IndependenceDay #July42025 #250th

Journal page with Red, White and Blue around the quotation: “And Love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and, furthermore, to win.’ —James Baldwin

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Jun 27

Taking pictures of #StreetArt

A dark suit with a waving hand with an old fashioned TV for a head on a bright multi-coloured background with a small sign saying anti-climb paint

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Jun 10

Took this photo out the #MTA train into Grand Central #NYC & loving the play of shadow winged moment on a flowered world & concrete #TravellingWithDevices

A young man walks in front of mural, a world made of brilliantly coloured flowers, or a flower face, just past another mural of a young child’s face bowed in prayer and contemplation, as a pigeon flies towards him, leaving its shadow on the flower world wall right as the boy’s two legs, beneath the photo frozen pigeon wings, turn into the bird’s wing shadows.

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Jun 2

Always grateful for a comic’s universal perspective!

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· May 24

Thinking of #JosephBrodsky & all his writing & joy in work & #poetry and his family, on his birthday. #Gratitude to #TheCormorant & @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social for choosing to publish my #poem ‘May 24, 2020’

MAY 24, 2020 by Evalyn Lee

for Joseph Brodsky

catkins are dying in a dry and white light a flux of birdsong flexes blossoms bends the wind into a pandemonium of parakeets too drunk to eat even one more translucent petal petals like skin your skin the skin I have repented especially the flexible blooms of our hands behind my head as you say you are dying trace the thick blue scar up behind your knee until it crosses your heart you cried after the heart surgery the doctor held the blossom cascade of your fingers bent but not broken you judged me shallow I am still shallow maybe less slippery certainly fatter but quick before the doves arrive to feast on the final blooms under this bright May sky clouds like the white pillows
I move out of the way let me touch paper petal your skin thank you and say sorry for the nitty-gritty you are dying I believe you I want kids in the garden blossoms flex in birdsong releasing a confusion of pollen

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· May 7

Happy Happy 80th Birthday @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social absolutely loved seeing you at the Rose theatre & hearing you answer the question why did you become a writer—all because of your brother and ‘the invisible line you cannot cross.’

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· May 4

Mood.

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Apr 27

Today’s #writing #advice from my notebook: ‘The story asks questions, it doesn’t answer them.’ Sometimes I think this is why people get tangled up in news cycles, where there is always the hope of a definitive answer.

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Apr 25

more wonderful readers & writers attending @londonistoryprize.bsky.social on April 24 2026: #AnVu & #TVBrown

a line drawing of @londonistoryprize.bsky.social finalist reader An Vu on April 24 2026

a line drawing of @londonistoryprize.bsky.social finalist reader TV Brown on April 24 2026

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Apr 25

@londonistoryprize.bsky.social #readers at the launch of their new anthology: #AnneThompson #JanetHSwinney #CharlieSwailes & #poet #JenniferWatson

a line drawing of @londonistoryprize.bsky.social finalist reader Anne Thomas on April 24 2026

@londonistoryprize.bsky.social finalist reader Janet H Swinney in a line drawing April 24 2026

@londonistoryprize.bsky.social finalist reader Charlie Swailes in a black and white line drawing April 24 2026

@londonistoryprize.bsky.social finalist reader& poet Jennifer Watson in a black and white line drawing April 24 2026

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Apr 25

@londonistoryprize.bsky.social hosted a wonderful reading April 24 2026 — some more of the readers: #KenCohen #OgechukwuUdeagha #SaharaDeVille #DCRestaino

Line drawing of Ken Cohen reading at @londonistoryprize.bsky.social

Line drawing of Ogechukwu Udeagha reading at @londonistoryprize.bsky.social April 23 2026

Line drawing of Sahara De Ville reading @londonistoryprize.bsky.social on April 23 2026

Line drawing of DC Restaino reading at @londonistoryprize.bsky.social on April 23 2026

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Apr 25

Some sketches of the winners & readers: #DervilleMurphy #SettitBeyene #KeenauJSands & #GillOHalloran

Line drawing of Derville Murphy reading from her winning short story ‘Artemis’ at LISP anthology launch April 23 2026

Line drawing of Settit Beyene reading from her winning flash story ‘The Last of Her Kind’ at LISP anthology launch April 23 2026

Line drawing of Keenau J Sands reading from his flash story at LISP anthology launch April 23 2026

Line drawing of Gill O’Halloran reading from her story at the LISP anthology launch April 23 2026

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Apr 25

@londonistoryprize.bsky.social Is such a supportive community group, run by #OzgeGoztuk. Do think about #submitting #film, #poetry, #flash, #shortstories www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk/services-5

Line drawing of Ozge Goztuk, Director of the London Independent Story Prize

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Apr 25

Really wonderful time & so great to read as a #poetryfinalist at the launch of @londonistoryprize.bsky.social this week! Congrats to the winners: #SettitBeyene for #flash & #DervilleMurphy for her #shortstory

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Apr 24

Nothing like the joy of seeing—face to face—an artist’s work, that you’ve loved since you copied it out from a book as a kid. #Raphael #SaintJohn & #SaintPeter #MetropolitanMuseum

head and hands is two apostles, Saints John and Peter ca 1519-20 by Raphael

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Apr 21

Back atcha!!

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Apr 5

Happy Happy Easter!

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Mar 31

Wonderful #poem by #IvanaMestrovic

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Mar 28

Joyous #NoKingsDay in #NYC & some of my favourite signs:

A woman wearing heart dark glasses holds a sign that reads: Healthcare not Warfare

A sign held up by a hand reads: Let’s stand together and fix this shit

A sign held by a man’s leg reads ‘we the people’

A sign reads in blue and red letters: Vote!!!!

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Mar 9

My copy has just arrived!! Cannot wait to dive in! So exciting! Bravo!!!!

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Jan 23

#London Angel, Islington ‘Please Help Me God Bless You’

A young man sits in north London under a tan sheet or light blanket in a green hoodie with a paper cup with a sign that reads ‘please help me God bless you’ beside a wall covered in graffiti next to the image of a dark head with two blank eyes and arm upstretched with its left hand almost claw-like, both are deep in water, either drowning or waving

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Jan 21

Notice from #ThamesWater for anyone waking up to #flooding or no #water in #London postcodes - WIH, W4, W6, W8, W11, W12, W13 and W14

London - WIH, W4, W6, W8, W11, W12, W13 and
W14
No water Low pressure
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Overview - 03:55 21/01/2026
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Our team are on site and are working hard to stop flooding in the area. We are working with the fire services and police to keep everyone safe. Traffic controls are also in place to protect the public.
While this work is carried out, customers in the following postcodes may have low water pressure or no water:
W1H, W4, W6, W8, W11, W12, W13 and W14
If you've been directly affected by flooding, please call us on 0800 316 9800 so we can offer you further support.
We know how disruptive it is if you lose your

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Jan 2

#Gratitude to @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social for her poetry and wisdom: “Poets are still routinely dismissed as having their heads in the clouds, but I think it takes real power to withstand everyday stresses and big life challenges AND still sit down and still write from the heart.” #poetrycommunity

An image of a quote by the poet Jenny Mitchell surrounded by lit small electric lights reads: “Poets are still routinely dismissed as having their heads in the clouds, but I think it takes real power to withstand everyday stresses and big life challenges AND still sit down and still write from the heart.”

Evalyn Lee@evalynlee· Jan 1

“It All Starts Here” #WriteOn #PoetryCommunity Wishing love, joy & community to all #poets, #writers, #journalists, #artists #visualjournalists & #readers for this year and the decades ahead.