Steven Leyva

Poet, Cave Canem Fellow, Associate Prof. @ubaltmain, Author of The Understudy’s Handbook (@WWPHPress 2020), and The Opposite of Cruelty (@Blairpublisher 2025)

[Steven Leyva @sdleyva]

If you want to pre-order my second collection from @BlairPublisher you can at the link below.

https://t.co/D5sUX2h3V2

[MARK @markplasma]

how your email finds me

[Smartish Pace - find us on Bluesky (@smartishpace) @SmartishPace]

Poet @sdleyva reading for us at AWP. Steven Leyva is the author of The Understudy’s Handbook (Writers' Pub. House) & The Opposite of Cruelty (@BlairPublisher). His poems appear in @SmartishPace.

#poetry #poet #smartishpace #AWP #bmoreart

https://t.co/EBLldyFR9l via @YouTube

[Smartish Pace - find us on Bluesky (@smartishpace) @SmartishPace]

Marianne Chan, @justinmarkspb & @sdleyva poetry reading for us recently at #AWP. The reading was hosted by @32_Poems @barrelhouse & @SmartishPace.

#SmartishPace #Poetry #PoetryReading #Poems #32Poems #Barrelhouse #CreativeWriting #AWP27

https://t.co/FTkwGg3axH via @YouTube

[Steven Leyva @sdleyva]

Poems are therefore we are. Let the church say amen. Let a man church the white space until it blackens. And since it was our sisters who first said, “i have seen the lord,” poems are.

[MARK @markplasma]

This argument always gets hung up on prestige programs and flattens the broader MFA experience. I went to a state school for free, my classmates were working adults, several alumni run notable presses. A fancy degree might open some doors but it won't make you a better artist.

[Steven Leyva @sdleyva]

@markplasma It’s like “what if there was a whole MFA for that?” 😅

https://t.co/eJXa71Zgwm

[MARK @markplasma]

my MFA didn't get me into the New Yorker but it made me write, design and publish my first book. it honed so many of the skills I needed to make BRUISER. that's real shit.

[MARK @markplasma]

if you're mad about "MFA writers" it's because you keep reading legacy publications that mostly publish "MFA writing" and expecting a new experience.

you are bored because you are boring.

[MARK @markplasma]

fwiw my program isn't even funded. I took advantage of a tuition remission opportunity while working full time; many classmates found similar ways in. huge props to the UBMFA for opening their arms to an incredibly diverse range of mostly working and lower-middle class writers

[Steven Leyva @sdleyva]

https://t.co/yTsrF7KM0x

New poem from Hood College’s Lit Mag, Pergola

[Steven Leyva @sdleyva]

IYKYK

[Steven Leyva @sdleyva]

Let’s go!

[Alex Carrigan @carriganak]

One last poem for 2025? Either way, here's "Ars Poetica: Dirges" in Brown Bag. Scroll to the bottom of the page to read this @sdleyva inspired ars poetica https://t.co/Gyzx08qy5f

[Steven Leyva @sdleyva]

The Smashing Pumpkins still hit. That’s it. #uncrecs

[Steven Leyva @sdleyva]

Poem and the Poem that inspired it

[Sandra Beasley @SandraBeasley]

Last chance to submit for the Wren Poetry Prize, which recognizes a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd poetry collection. Winner receives $1K advance against royalties and gets to work with Blair. No reading fee. Send by Sat, Nov 15—but the portal closes early if we reach 300 submissions first!

[Sandra Beasley @SandraBeasley]

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. https://t.co/LMU1sL5yPZ

[Shaileen @librarypoems]

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

[Steven Leyva @sdleyva]

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

[Omnidawn Publishing @Omnidawn]

Flum manages to make the reader an intimate outsider, rather than simply a voyeur.
Steven Leyva

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