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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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9 months

🚨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!)

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@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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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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Chen Chen, “Doctor’s Note” in YOUR EMERGENCY CONTACT HAS EXPERIENCED AN EMERGENCY 💙 @chenchenwrites

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THIS poem by Katherine Schmidt in the new issue of Variant Lit ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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1 year

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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2 years

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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1 month

Next manuscript is ready to go! 👀

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1 year

“…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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Lucille Clifton 💙 “it does not help to know”

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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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9 months

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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11 months

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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@susanlleary is unboxing her author copies of Dressing The Bear! ❤️❤️❤️

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“What’s wild / will never / lie to you…” Gabrielle Bates in JUDAS GOAT 💙

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3 months

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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9 months

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.

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1 year

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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7 months

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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Read this powerful poem by @susanlleary :

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5 months

“…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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2 months

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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Powerful,beautiful yet so simple from @susanlleary .

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“I invented sadness…” —Diane Seuss 💙

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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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In this moving debut, Leary meditates on the spaces the dead leave behind, offering an elegiac exploration of sibling bonds thro...

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@susanlleary ’s Dressing the Bear, reviewed in @PublishersWkly !

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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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“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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3 months

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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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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26 days

A happy day! Elated to be a finalist for the Beullah Rose Poetry Prize & to be in such amazing company! Congrats to the winners & other finalists, & thank you so much, @SmartishPace ! 💙⬇️

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We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 20th annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, congratulations to the poets! And thank you for making excellent contributions to #SmartishPace in our 25th anniversary issue! 🏆 @emilyeschulten @CarolynROliver @jnbowdoin_poet @RattoAmy

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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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This wisdom from Alison Thumel in ARCHITECT ( @uarkpress ) 💙

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Joan Kwon Glass in NIGHT SWIM 💙 That ending. @joanpglass

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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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“…and then I outlived my life…” Forrest Gander in BE WITH 💙

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1 year

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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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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9 months

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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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 from DRESSING THE BEAR ( @triohousepress ) will forever live in my heart. Thank you so much, Paul, for sharing it today. 💙

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"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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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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“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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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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6 months

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! ⬇️

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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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I love my mother 💙 (from The MacGuffin, 2022)

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Susan L. Leary

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