Susan L. Leary
@susanlleary
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Poet/Educator | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, @triohousepress 2024) | A BUFFET TABLE FIT FOR QUEENS (Washburn Prize, @harbor_review ) + 2 | Mayah 🐶
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🚨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!)
@triohousepress
cover reveal!
@susanlleary
’s beautiful Dressing the Bear, now available for preorder!
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When I think of what poetry can do, I always think of this poem by Stanley Kunitz 💙
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Because it’s Valentine’s Day. And because we love this poem.
Matthew Olzmann ❤️❤️❤️
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This is THE BEST abecedarian I have ever encountered 💙
—Su Cho (
@su__cho
) in THE SYMMETRY OF FISH
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I love poems & I love my brother—& I love
@CathexisNWPress
for giving a home to “Clean.” I don’t think any poem I write will ever matter to me more. 💙
Read the full issue here:
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Stumbled upon this Nomi Stone poem again, and I’m so glad I did. 💙⬇️
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I can’t believe I get to say my manuscript, Dressing the Bear, is the WINNER of the 2023 Louise Bogan Award with Trio House Press! Heartfelt thanks to Kimberly Blaeser & the
@triohousepress
team—& to my brother, for whom these poems are dedicated. I can’t wait to share them!
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“There is a bird and a stone / in your body. You job is not / to kill the bird with the stone.”
—Victoria Chang, from THE TREES WITNESS EVERYTHING
@VChangPoet
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“That’s how it is sometimes—
God comes to your window,
all bright light and black wings,
and you’re just too tired to open it.”
—Dorianne Laux, “Dust” ♥️
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“I speak / because I am shattered.”
—Louise Glück, “The Red Poppy” ❤️
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“Show me one beast / that loves itself as relentlessly / as even the most miserable man.”
—Kaveh Akbar in PILGRIM BELL 💙
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Chen Chen, “Doctor’s Note” in YOUR EMERGENCY CONTACT HAS EXPERIENCED AN EMERGENCY 💙
@chenchenwrites
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I’ve never done an acceptance post before, but I am so gosh darn excited about this one, I just can’t help myself!!!Thank you
@sho_journal
for accepting 2 of my poems and for all this JOY today!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙
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THIS poem by Katherine Schmidt in the new issue of Variant Lit ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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CW: addiction/overdose
My brother was smart as hell & struggled with addiction. Deepest love to
@IndianaReview
4 featuring our collaborations in their folio of work by incarcerated writers—his journal entries, my poems. He died a week after being released. I miss him like hell.
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I can’t believe I get to say my manuscript, “A Buffet Table Fit for Queens,” is the WINNER of this year’s Washburn Prize! Thank you so much to Laura Lee Washburn & the
@harbor_review
team & congrats to the finalists, whose company I am lucky to keep. I hope you enjoy these poems!
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“…because you want to die for love, / you always have.”
—Richard Siken, “Planet of Love” in CRUSH
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CW: suicide
A poem from my first chap, which attempts to honor the life of my mother’s father, whom I never met and who died by suicide 63 years ago today.
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“My body is a lens / I can look through with my mind.”
—Ama Codjoe, “On Seeing and Being Seen” in BLUEST NUDE 💙
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I’m feeling this in my heart now & want to say it: the number of people I’ve met on here who’ve inspired me with their art & who’ve made me feel seen & loved—it’s just incredible. To share art, poetry, & words with you—& to connect through loss—is truly a great honor of my life.
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The Tusculum Review is such a beautifully produced journal, and I am lucky to have a poem in the new issue titled, “Encore to Girlmaking,” which is also the tentative title of my next manuscript. I hope you might give it a read! 💙🙏
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I have a new prose poem in the RED Issue of SLIPSTREAM! Grateful to share space w/ some poet friends too! ❤️
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A bit behind on sharing the news, but I’m thrilled to have received Third Place/Editor’s Choice in the 2024 Sweet Poetry Contest for “Dramatic Irony,” a poem from my new ms.! Thx to the editors & congrats to the winners & finalists!
Read the poem here:
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I’m not sure I’ve ever been more grateful for anything in my life. Thank you
@triohousepress
for the beautiful gift of DRESSING THE BEAR & for helping me keep the memory of my brother alive. I will never forget this. 🥹💙🙏
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“What’s wild / will never / lie to you…”
Gabrielle Bates in JUDAS GOAT 💙
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Overjoyed to have two Indiana-inspired poems in
@sho_journal
No. 5! This is such a special journal edited by
@_johnnycordova
&
@domkeykong
& I’m lucky to share space with many of my favorite poets & friends! Here’s “Uprooted”! I hope you give it a read.
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It’s official! HAPPY PUB DAY to DRESSING THE BEAR! Thank you to everyone at
@triohousepress
& to all those who supported me in writing it! The book is dedicated to the loving memory of my brother. That I get to share this small piece of him with anyone at all, is everything. 💙
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I appreciate everyone who has embraced my poem, Clean, as it’s connected me to many others who have experienced a similar loss. If you love this poem, pls consider pre-ordering DRESSING THE BEAR (
@triohousepress
), a book-length elegy to this person I miss so much. Link in 🧵/bio.
I love poems & I love my brother—& I love
@CathexisNWPress
for giving a home to “Clean.” I don’t think any poem I write will ever matter to me more. 💙
Read the full issue here:
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Thanks so much to
@MayaCPopa
for sharing my poem, “Clean,” today, originally published in
@CathexisNWPress
and appearing in my forthcoming collection DRESSING THE BEAR, out with
@triohousepress
in July! I’m so happy!!! 💙💙💙
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“…when I write about anything, even the hardest crap, there is…an objectivity that comes from focusing on the making instead of the feeling.”
—Diane Seuss in conversation with Bianca Stone in Poets & Writers ❤️
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The love people continue to show this poem is really a love continually shown to my brother. I am so thankful to everyone who has engaged with this piece. A real miracle. It’s in DRESSING THE BEAR, a book length elegy to this person I miss so much, out now w/
@triohousepress
. 💙
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Oh my goodness! My little book, DRESSING THE BEAR, was reviewed in
@PublishersWkly
! What an absolute dream! Thanks to
@triohousepress
for uplifting your authors left and right! I am so lucky! Friends, check out the review if you can!!! 💙🙏⬇️
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It’s my birthday!!! & here’s a new poem from my forthcoming collection, DRESSING THE BEAR! Thanks to
@CrabCreekRev
for giving it a lovely home! & friends, just for today: I hope you consider pre-ordering DRESSING THE BEAR, out with
@triohousepress
July 1st! Links in comments. 💙
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“I was sixteen for twenty years. By September I will be a ghost ... “
Lucie Brock-Broido, “A Girl Ago” ♥️
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“…a miracle isn’t a miracle / without sacrifice…”
—Paige Lewis, “I’ve Been Trying to Feel Bad for Everyone” in SPACE STRUCK
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It’s Friday night & an inopportune time to post, but I’ve been hoping to land a poem in
@DiodeEditions
for so long—years!!!!—so imagine my delight at having TWO poems in the new issue that is stacked with so many poets I love! Here’s one of them: “A Room for Future Recognition”!
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“We carve up the world all the time.”
—Richard Siken 💙
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“but you live oh, you live // everyday you wake you raise the dead // everything you do is a miracle” ✨
—Danez Smith, “a note on the body” in DON’T CALL US DEAD
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So very grateful to
@jackbedell
&
@LaLiterature
for including 2 poems of mine in the newest issue! Here’s “We Examined Survival under a Microscope.” I hope you’ll give it a read. 💙
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Dana Levin 💙
The last two lines are, for me, the epitome of poetry.
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“…I was happy, // watching it happen without it happening to me.”
Marie Howe 💙
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“Is there nobility in poems? Let’s hope not. Nobility is another place / to hide.”
💙 Diane Seuss, FRANK: SONNETS 💙
@dlseuss
@GraywolfPress
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Friends!!!! 🚨Cover Reveal 🚨 for DRESSING THE BEAR coming soon, coming soon as in ❤️ TOMORROW! ❤️
@triohousepress
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“I is a plural state / of being.”
—Taylor Johnson, “Consider the Deer” in INHERITANCE 💙
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“The distance between my / life and myself had become too far.”
Victoria Chang, “A Woman with a Bird” in YOU ARE HERE: POETRY IN THE NATURAL WORLD 💙
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“It took me so long to learn how to love, / how to give myself up and over to another. / Now I see how she has always / loved them all, snails and spiders, / from the very beginning, without fear or shame ...”
—Dorianne Laux, “For My Daughter Who Loves Animals” in WHAT WE CARRY
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Big thanks to The Ilanot Review
@ilanot_review
for nominating my poem, “Poem in which God or I Go Missing” for the 2023 Orison Best Spiritual Literature Anthology! My first nomination for BSL! Congrats to the other nominees as well! 💜❤️🩷
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“…and then I outlived my life…”
Forrest Gander in BE WITH 💙
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I know it’s Am*zon, but to see DRESSING THE BEAR (
@triohousepress
) at
#18
in New Poetry Releases in Death, Grief, and Loss—well, I’m so amazed by that & so gosh darn grateful to everyone who has supported this little book of mine! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! 💙🙏
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Welcome to the Carmel Clay Public Library Local Author Fair! Thanks to my husband for the set-up! & friends, just because you’re not in Indy, doesn’t mean you can’t participate! If you’d like a signed copy of DRESSING THE BEAR (
@triohousepress
), I’m a DM away! Happy Saturday! 💙
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Very grateful to have a poem appear in the newest issue of Tar River Poetry. A dream for me. I hope you’ll give it a read. 💙
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THIS poem by
@toddedillard
in the new issue of
@thebeavermag
. Just wait until you get to that last line. 🦫💚
Read the whole issue here:
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“We split the silence and mended it.”
—Maya C. Popa, “The Song of Male Aggression” in THE BEES HAVE BEEN CANCELED 💙
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Look at the beautiful bookmarks my husband made me for an upcoming event at the Carmel Clay Public Library! DRESSING THE BEAR (
@triohousepress
) is ready to go! 💙
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This poem from DRESSING THE BEAR (
@triohousepress
) will forever live in my heart. Thank you so much, Paul, for sharing it today. 💙
"The fatigue of living wiped from his cheeks" just one of the brilliant lines in
@susanlleary
Susan L. Leary's
poem Clean.
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Happy to have three new poems in Issue
#16
of The Inflectionist Review. Here’s one of them: “A Student Says ‘Empathy Doesn’t Make Sense’”! Many thanks to the editors, John Sibley Williams and A. Molotkov. Check out the entire issue here, friends:
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Friends! I’m so excited to share that I recently joined the Editorial Critique Team at Iron Oak Editions (
@IronOakEditions
)! This is such a big-hearted & word-loving group & I’m so happy to be on board! If you’re in need of feedback on your manuscript, I’d love to work w/ you! ⬇️
Need a reader that can offer detailed developmental feedback? Take the stress out of writing your book. The @IronOakEditions editorial critique team is here to help you refine your work.
Meet the team and get further details at the link below:
#write
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“What can be said about what we do to each other.”
—Alex Dimitrov, “Out of Some Other Paradise” in TOGETHER AND BY OURSELVES
@alexdimitrov
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So much love to Kimberly Blaeser for choosing DRESSING THE BEAR to win the Louise Bogan Award with
@triohousepress
& for offering these immensely kind words. My life is changed & I am so grateful.💙
Please consider pre-ordering the collection, too! Link in thread.
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Friends! After living in Miami for the past 20+ years and having just made a BIG MOVE to Indiana, I discovered something today! I discovered this thing called SNOW!❄️❄️💙💙
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“I want to say I survived our childhoods, // but I hate that I survived you.”
—Chelsea Dingman in I, DIVIDED 💙
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