Leah Umansky
@leahumansky.bsky.social
Writer/ Poet/ educator/ artist/ feminist/
Host + Curator of @coupletseries.bsky.social in NYC since 2011
Curator/creator of #staybrave substack
Repped by Annie DeWitt
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Leah Umansky
@leahumansky.bsky.social
· Sep 14
I'm going to be leading a 'Dream Walk' event at The Guggenheim on Sunday, October 12th. More info below. Get your ticket!
www.guggenheim.org/event/museum...
Such a dream come true. I am grateful to @tracibrimhall.bsky.social & The Guggenheim Museum
www.guggenheim.org/event/museum...
Such a dream come true. I am grateful to @tracibrimhall.bsky.social & The Guggenheim Museum
This Wednesday in Brooklyn
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/19! We’re excited to welcome readers @leahumansky.bsky.social, Laura Venita Green, @deenaelg.bsky.social, and Eve M. Kahn. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This Wednesday in Brooklyn
This thursday!
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/19! We’re excited to welcome readers @leahumansky.bsky.social, Laura Venita Green, @deenaelg.bsky.social, and Eve M. Kahn. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
November 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This thursday!
A new #staybrave is live with Victoria Redel.
Read. Enjoy. Share. Subscribe.
@zandoprojects.bsky.social
Read. Enjoy. Share. Subscribe.
@zandoprojects.bsky.social
'Stay Brave' with Victoria Redel
‘Stay Brave’ is an interview series by woman-identifying creatives for woman-identifying creatives to inspire bravery in the creative life. [Created and curated by Leah Umansky]
staybrave.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
A new #staybrave is live with Victoria Redel.
Read. Enjoy. Share. Subscribe.
@zandoprojects.bsky.social
Read. Enjoy. Share. Subscribe.
@zandoprojects.bsky.social
Reposted by Leah Umansky
Reposted by Leah Umansky
See you on Monday for our Brown Bag Lit event:
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register for your free ticket: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register for your free ticket: www.brownbaglit.com/events
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
See you on Monday for our Brown Bag Lit event:
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register for your free ticket: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller
co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social
Register for your free ticket: www.brownbaglit.com/events
So excited to be teaching a course this winter, online, on hybrid storytelling at Poetry School London. The course is part memoir, part fable, and part poetry. See below.
Our Spring Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & poetry courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Our handy Quick Course Guide is linked in bio, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know…
poetryschool.com/new-courses/... 🪻🌜
poetryschool.com/new-courses/... 🪻🌜
Spring 2026 – Quick Course Guide • Poetry School
Check out our Quick Course Guide for the Spring 2026 term which will help you pick a course to take at the Poetry School.
poetryschool.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
So excited to be teaching a course this winter, online, on hybrid storytelling at Poetry School London. The course is part memoir, part fable, and part poetry. See below.
Later this month!
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/19! We’re excited to welcome readers @leahumansky.bsky.social, Laura Venita Green, @deenaelg.bsky.social, and Eve M. Kahn. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Later this month!
Reposted by Leah Umansky
HERE IT IS!!!!!
H Is For Hawk - Official Trailer
YouTube video by LionsgateFilmsUK
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
HERE IT IS!!!!!
Reposted by Leah Umansky
Join us Thursday, November 13th at 7 PM ET for a hybrid poetry reading and exhibit launch featuring contributors to the new anthology "The Nature of Our Times", edited by @thepoetslizard.bsky.social, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler. Foreword by phillevin.bsky.social.
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Join us Thursday, November 13th at 7 PM ET for a hybrid poetry reading and exhibit launch featuring contributors to the new anthology "The Nature of Our Times", edited by @thepoetslizard.bsky.social, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler. Foreword by phillevin.bsky.social.
This is going to be great ! @poetshouse.bsky.social
Readings from Kimberly Blaeser, Aileen Cassinetto, chingin.bsky.social, kinsaledrake.bsky.social, David Hassler, Jane Hirshfield, thepoetslizard.bsky.social, philipmetres.bsky.social, hyffeinated.bsky.social, Dorsía Smith Silva, Arthur Sze, Joanna Solfrian, and leahumansky.bsky.social. RSVP today!
"The Nature of Our Times" Hybrid Poetry Reading & Exhibit Launch
Join us for a hybrid poetry reading and exhibit launch featuring contributors to the new anthology "The Nature of Our Times."
poetshouse.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This is going to be great ! @poetshouse.bsky.social
I'm judging the midway journal poetry contest. More below.
midwayjournal.submittable.com/submit
midwayjournal.submittable.com/submit
Midway Journal Submission Manager
midwayjournal.submittable.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm judging the midway journal poetry contest. More below.
midwayjournal.submittable.com/submit
midwayjournal.submittable.com/submit
November 13 at @poetshouse.bsky.social
In person and hybrid. Come celebrate this beautiful anthology
poetshouse.org/event/the-na...
In person and hybrid. Come celebrate this beautiful anthology
poetshouse.org/event/the-na...
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
November 13 at @poetshouse.bsky.social
In person and hybrid. Come celebrate this beautiful anthology
poetshouse.org/event/the-na...
In person and hybrid. Come celebrate this beautiful anthology
poetshouse.org/event/the-na...
Thank you to the editors of @northamerreview.bsky.social for saying yes to this ars poetica of mine from my new mms of ars poeticas. This one owes a debt to @slowdownshow.org and Major Jackson.
October 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Thank you to the editors of @northamerreview.bsky.social for saying yes to this ars poetica of mine from my new mms of ars poeticas. This one owes a debt to @slowdownshow.org and Major Jackson.
A new #staybrave is live with the one and only Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark). Read it. Enjoy it. Share it. Subscribe!
open.substack.com/pub/staybrav...
open.substack.com/pub/staybrav...
'Stay Brave' with Stephanie Burt
‘Stay Brave’ is an interview series by woman-identifying creatives for woman-identifying creatives to inspire bravery in the creative life. [Created and curated by Leah Umansky]
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A new #staybrave is live with the one and only Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark). Read it. Enjoy it. Share it. Subscribe!
open.substack.com/pub/staybrav...
open.substack.com/pub/staybrav...
A new poem of mine is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social in the ALIEN edition. It's a part of a manuscript of ars poeticas I'm working on. Thank you to everyone at LARB. This poem is for my friend Dante Di Stefano.
Leah Umansky’s “Ars Poetica: The Thing Is …” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Leah Umansky offers a treatise on living among nature, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
lareviewofbooks.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A new poem of mine is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social in the ALIEN edition. It's a part of a manuscript of ars poeticas I'm working on. Thank you to everyone at LARB. This poem is for my friend Dante Di Stefano.
@coupletseries.bsky.social returns for 'Year 14' on Friday 10/10 at 7pm. Register for the event below.
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September 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
@coupletseries.bsky.social returns for 'Year 14' on Friday 10/10 at 7pm. Register for the event below.
www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-c...
www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-c...
An old poem from West Trestle Review about the Equinox.
September 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
An old poem from West Trestle Review about the Equinox.
New poem in this beautiful anthology.
September 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
New poem in this beautiful anthology.
I'm going to be leading a 'Dream Walk' event at The Guggenheim on Sunday, October 12th. More info below. Get your ticket!
www.guggenheim.org/event/museum...
Such a dream come true. I am grateful to @tracibrimhall.bsky.social & The Guggenheim Museum
www.guggenheim.org/event/museum...
Such a dream come true. I am grateful to @tracibrimhall.bsky.social & The Guggenheim Museum
September 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I'm going to be leading a 'Dream Walk' event at The Guggenheim on Sunday, October 12th. More info below. Get your ticket!
www.guggenheim.org/event/museum...
Such a dream come true. I am grateful to @tracibrimhall.bsky.social & The Guggenheim Museum
www.guggenheim.org/event/museum...
Such a dream come true. I am grateful to @tracibrimhall.bsky.social & The Guggenheim Museum
One month ! 10/10 at 7pm
@coupletseries.bsky.social
@coupletseries.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
One month ! 10/10 at 7pm
@coupletseries.bsky.social
@coupletseries.bsky.social
I'm reading on Zoom for Uncloistered Poetry, this Sunday at 6pm EST. More info below. There is also an open mic
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'm reading on Zoom for Uncloistered Poetry, this Sunday at 6pm EST. More info below. There is also an open mic
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@sketchbookskool.bsky.social LOVE your 'Draw With Me: Poets!' and yes, high school teachers still teach Sylvia Plath.
September 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
@sketchbookskool.bsky.social LOVE your 'Draw With Me: Poets!' and yes, high school teachers still teach Sylvia Plath.
Reposted by Leah Umansky
August 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I started The Studio and my god I love Seth Rogan
August 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I started The Studio and my god I love Seth Rogan