Steven Leyva
@sdleyva
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Poet, Cave Canem Fellow, Associate Prof. @ubaltmain, Author of The Understudy’s Handbook (@WWPHPress 2020), and The Opposite of Cruelty (@Blairpublisher 2025)
Baltimore
Joined September 2011
If you want to pre-order my second collection from @BlairPublisher you can at the link below. https://t.co/D5sUX2h3V2
blairpub.com
Steven Leyva’s second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man’s lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.
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Pssst. Got a 1st/2nd/3rd book of poems that needs a good home? Send it my way! I'm the final judge of this year's Wren Poetry Prize for @BlairPublisher. NO reading fee. Get your entry in soon—when we reach 300 submissions, we close the Submittable portal.
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Come to @prattlibrary this SAT 9/27 @ 3 pm to celebrate the launch of AMERICA'S FUTURE with @WWPHPress! Readers include @sdleyva, @snarkysyntax, @ZorinaExie, Matt Hohner, Annie Marhefka, Adam Schwartz, & Cherrie Woods! Also streamed here: https://t.co/gsuWGwzKyV
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Reading 📖, literacy, & critical thinking are probably the most valuable job skills in this moment of techno-fatalism and fascist hysteria. Poems, Novels, & Memoirs are the strength training for the muscle of your imagination. Journalism is the cardio. Conversation the cooldown
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Flum manages to make the reader an intimate outsider, rather than simply a voyeur. Steven Leyva https://t.co/SyzPcIJsPG
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Day 20 ( 28 . 08 . 2025 ) Poem by Steven Leyva, published in “Poetry Magazine” (December 2024)
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Day 30: After "Ars Poetica with Zydeco" by Steven Leyva Original poem in "The Understudy's Handbook"
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😭👏 Townsend to Ostapenko: “You can learn how to take a loss better”
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Wonderful poems by Steven Leyva, "Antiphona,' in particular. https://t.co/vIrmdiKtz1
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Poetry by Steven Leyva in Bear Review. Bear Review is a journal of poetry and art based in Kansas City.
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https://t.co/lztLO9Y6co Steven Leyva, Holly Karapetkova, and Tonee Mae Moll featured in WWPH Writes 96...our National Poetry Month special! More at https://t.co/tLlID1GfcS. We open our annual book-length manuscript contests on May 1st!! #poetry #poetrycommunity #amwriting
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GORG review of Jehanne Dubrow's CIVILIANS in @wirobooks from Steven Leyva! https://t.co/xZGCdyQVwD
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Baltimore friends—tonight at 6 PM ET (Monday, 5/19) I'll get to be in conversation with the stellar poet @sdleyva at @TheIvyBookshop to celebrate Leyva's collection, The Opposite of Cruelty (H/T @BlairPublisher). Please join us on the Ivy's patio!
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Walking out of 2024, and running into 2025 trying to follow my own imperative. Thanks you to @PoetryFound and to everyone who shared, listened, read, congratulated these poems of mine in the DEC issue. Thank you for adding substance to the dream.
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Big thanks to STEVEN LEYVA for being a part of "Between the Pages" on TRIAD TODAY!
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Steven Leyva: "The Opposite of Cruelty" & Valzhyna Mort: "Music for the Dead and Ressurected"
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The Opposite of Cruelty: A Conversation with Poet Steven Leyva on His New Collection
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Poet and scholar (and anime enthusiast) Steven Leyva believes we – the human “we” – have been malformed by cruelty in ways that make it hard to recognize the beauty that moves through our lives and…
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Local poets Charif Shanahan and Terra Betts curated a reading event for Steven Leyva’s “The Opposite of Cruelty.” https://t.co/TBED5E6Ijd
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Local poets Charif Shanahan and Terra Betts curated a reading event for Steven Leyva’s “The Opposite of Cruelty.”
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I am geeking. I am so humbled and grateful and beside myself that THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY made this list from the New York Public Library. All thanks to Blair to Robin Hollamon Miura and Arielle Hebert and the whole editorial staff https://t.co/ekW0fqaMHc
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NYPL's expert librarians and staff read over 250 poetry books to select the 25 picks presented here. These titles demonstrate poetry's ability to shepherd readers through an awesome array of spirit...
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If you weren't able to make it out, don't fret! Signed copies of "Larks: Poems" and "The Opposite of Cruelty" are currently available at the Carrboro Fig. Happy National Poetry Month! ✨
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