Susan L. Leary

Poet | MORE FLOWERS (@triohousepress, 2026) | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, @triohousepress, 2024) + 3 📚 | Mayah 🐶

[Susan L. Leary @susanlleary]

🚨COVER REVEAL🚨for DRESSING THE BEAR & it’s a beauty! Thanks to everyone at @triohousepress, to Kimberly Blaeser for selecting it, to my beautiful brother, & to my many friends here in the writing community—that’s YOU!!!—who, each day, make me feel loved!💙🙏 (PREORDER in bio!)

[Trio House Press @triohousepress]

@triohousepress cover reveal! @susanlleary’s beautiful Dressing the Bear, now available for preorder! https://t.co/I1bv1YP5ap

[Susan L. Leary @susanlleary]

@abairrud2021 @stonecirclerev @LeePottsPoet I am! Thank you! And I hope you’re enjoying your July, too! 🌸🥰

[Susan L. Leary @susanlleary]

@melostrom Thank you so very much, Melissa! 🥰🤗💙

[Melissa Ostrom @melostrom]

“Mostly, he is beside me…”

Oh, my goodness, this stunning poem by @susanlleary.💙

[Susan L. Leary @susanlleary]

@jenwithwords Jenny! 🥰🤗💙

[Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @RoseKnapp_]

Mad Spirits by Rose Knapp

#drawing #spiritualart #abstractart #art

[Sam Rasnake @SamRasnake]

New work at Trampoline Poetry - "Poet at Home, Shares Reflection". Thanks to Barnali Ray Shukla (amazing filmmaker, poet) for creating the photo that inspired the poem, and to Ed. Justin Lacour for believing in the piece. @barnalirays @TrampolinePoet1
https://t.co/RGc2X0z4FI

[Loukia Louka Borrell 🇺🇲🇨🇾 @LoukiaBorrell]

New poetry up in Silk Road Review, a literary journal @pacificu in Oregon. My poem, 'On Your Passing Journey,' is featured along with other poems, stories, artwork, and more. My piece imagines my father is making a post-mortem visit with me, a last goodbye, on his way to his final destination. Many thanks to the editors for selecting my work, and congratulations to all the contributors. @SilkRoadReview

[Vikki C. @VWC_Writes]

Warmest thanks to Editor Benjamin Faro for publishing my poem 'Self-Portrait of a Grief Bypass' in Equatorial Magazine, Issue 9, alongside a cast of stellar poets ❤️
https://t.co/d5eXnkPiwx

Enjoy the stunning issue 9 here: https://t.co/JUItSB5AJF

#poetrycommunity

[Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson]

“A beetle exploring the extravagance of a lamp.” A poem by Ukata Edwardson.

[Poem Today @poemtoday]

Memento Mori

How much pain
should we knowingly invite—
the gallery says 𝘢𝘭𝘭, and all at once.

Otherwise, why paint or write
if not for ends hidden in plain sight?

I watch you disappear
into the next room knowing,
one day, this room will be my life.

Maya C. Popa

[Sam Rasnake @SamRasnake]

Adrienne Rich, from “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”

"Themes, written under duress."

[Susan L. Leary @susanlleary]

@pimpledrose How gorgeous!

[Jenny Wong @jenwithwords]

“Sometimes my body grows
a separate body”

Gorgeous new poem by @susanlleary!!

[Susan L. Leary @susanlleary]

@vinconvertito @PoetBex @NorthAmerReview Thank you so much! 💙🙏

[Susan L. Leary @susanlleary]

🚨Dream journal moment!🚨Beyond excited to have a poem in the new issue of North American Review alongside some absolutely rockstar poets and writers! Here’s to poetry, a little imagination, and the bizarre interplay of loss, lineage, and memory.

@NorthAmerReview

[Susan L. Leary @susanlleary]

@PoetBex @abairrud2021 @NorthAmerReview Thank you so much, Bex! I’m grateful! 💙

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“What I imagine / is vanishing—language / you will take beyond the peaks.”

— M. Cynthia Cheung

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This poem appeared in Lunch Ticket, Issue 28: Winter/Spring 2026. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“Animals fantasticate me. They are time that does not measure itself.”

(Lispector, Água Viva)