Leah Umansky
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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
https://linktr.ee/leahumansky
November 13 at @poetshouse.bsky.social
In person and hybrid. Come celebrate this beautiful anthology
poetshouse.org/event/the-na...
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 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.
October 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
An old poem from West Trestle Review about the Equinox.
September 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
New poem in this beautiful anthology.
September 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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
September 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
One month ! 10/10 at 7pm
@coupletseries.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 4:35 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...
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Come celebrate the 14th anniversary of @coupletseries.bsky.social at our new home at Books Are Magic - Montague St location with these wonderful readers. #coupletnyc
#14yearsofcouplet
August 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Today at 4pm. Ithaca, NY
@buffalostreetbooks.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It's happening
July 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Coming up next Thurs at @buffalostreetbooks.bsky.social w/ @christianteresi.bsky.social + Dante Di Stefano.
#oftyrant
July 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Loved this poem in @havehashad.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This reading last night at @poetshouse.bsky.social with @bblilikoi.bsky.social and Ed Hirsch was so delightful. I can't stop thinking about it and how inspired I am. Sometimes, you do a thing or go to a thing, and you're so grateful you did. 💫
June 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This poem from my book Of Tyrant seems fitting for today.
#oftyrant
June 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Best way to end the school year is with Ibsen. Best play.
May 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I never posted my prose poem from @invisiblestrings13.bsky.social inspired by taylor swift 🎶 .

Go to your local bookstore and get the anthology now. It's brilliant. Truly.
May 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Thanks to @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for saying YES to my work again. Thanks to my friend @mfitejohnson.bsky.social whose own abcedarians inspired me. Thanks to @lisaampleman.bsky.social + to @ericadawsonpoet.bsky.social for their support of this poem. It's in my mms ORDINARY SPLENDOR
#grateful
May 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
April 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Super excited to bring my new book Of Tyrant to Sarah Lawrence College for the Poetry Festival this coming weekend.
April 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
@coupletseries.bsky.social returns at the end of the month with these six wonderful poets.
Link in bio. Please note there is a TWO drink minimum and this event is on the third floor - no elevator.

4/25/25 5pm
#coupletnyc
#nationalpoetrymonth
#grateful
April 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I'm so excited to show this in my class next week. If you haven't watched it, you should. It's on amazon. It's such a beautiful story about the wonder in this life.
April 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Come see me in LA this week at AWP
#oftyrant
March 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Up early on the LIRR to bring some poetry to high schoolers on Long Island this fine morning

#oftyrant
#grateful
March 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Thank you to Brittany Miller for these terrific answers for my Stay Brave substack. I love what she says about bravery, artistry and being a woman in this world.

Read. Subscribe. Share.

#staybrave
March 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Saw Moby Dick last night. It was so wonderful @metropolitanopera.bsky.social

#grateful 🐳
March 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM