Steven Leyva
@stevenleyva.bsky.social
Poet, Associate Professor at the University of Baltimore, Nerd, Author of THE UNDERSTUDY’S HANDBOOK and THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY
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Dear poetry lovers, want to help me reach the “1000-books-sold” mark and send my second book to a second printing?
Consider purchasing THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social
I’ve sold 887 copies & w/ a little help we can make it to 1000!
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Consider purchasing THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social
I’ve sold 887 copies & w/ a little help we can make it to 1000!
blairpub.com/shop/p/the-o...
The Opposite of Cruelty, poems by Steven Leyva — Blair Publisher
Steven Leyva’s second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man’s lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Dear poetry lovers, want to help me reach the “1000-books-sold” mark and send my second book to a second printing?
Consider purchasing THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social
I’ve sold 887 copies & w/ a little help we can make it to 1000!
blairpub.com/shop/p/the-o...
Consider purchasing THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social
I’ve sold 887 copies & w/ a little help we can make it to 1000!
blairpub.com/shop/p/the-o...
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On Poetry: October 2025. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #booksky
October 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
On Poetry: October 2025. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #booksky
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Reposting because we found @stevenleyva.bsky.social on here!
To Be Continued 5... comes to an end! THANKS to organizers @grossmjj.bsky.social, @iainrobertsmith.bsky.social, Con Verevis, & Tom Leitch, who has our best wishes for his pending retirement! Thanks also to hosts @kylemeikle.bsky.social & Steven Leyva @ U Baltimore.
To be continued in 2026! 🕰️
To be continued in 2026! 🕰️
September 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Reposting because we found @stevenleyva.bsky.social on here!
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Write poems. Read poems.
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Write poems. Read poems.
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To Be Continued 5... comes to an end! THANKS to organizers @grossmjj.bsky.social, @iainrobertsmith.bsky.social, Con Verevis, & Tom Leitch, who has our best wishes for his pending retirement! Thanks also to hosts @kylemeikle.bsky.social & Steven Leyva @ U Baltimore.
To be continued in 2026! 🕰️
To be continued in 2026! 🕰️
September 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
To Be Continued 5... comes to an end! THANKS to organizers @grossmjj.bsky.social, @iainrobertsmith.bsky.social, Con Verevis, & Tom Leitch, who has our best wishes for his pending retirement! Thanks also to hosts @kylemeikle.bsky.social & Steven Leyva @ U Baltimore.
To be continued in 2026! 🕰️
To be continued in 2026! 🕰️
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
Poems, Novels, & Memoirs are the strength training for the muscle of your imagination. Journalism is the cardio. Conversation the cooldown
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September 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
Poems, Novels, & Memoirs are the strength training for the muscle of your imagination. Journalism is the cardio. Conversation the cooldown
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High-fives, Handshakes, and Hugs: A fragmentary lecture while the ink is running out. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/hig... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #booksky
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
High-fives, Handshakes, and Hugs: A fragmentary lecture while the ink is running out. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/hig... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #booksky
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Flum manages to make the reader an intimate outsider, rather than simply a voyeur.
Steven Leyva
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Steven Leyva
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August 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Flum manages to make the reader an intimate outsider, rather than simply a voyeur.
Steven Leyva
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Steven Leyva
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press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Day 20 of the #sealeychallenge
August 20th- The Opposite of Cruelty, Steven Leyva
Breaking the alphabetical order we’ve been jamming on because this collection by @stevenleyva.bsky.social is so damn breathtaking
August 20th- The Opposite of Cruelty, Steven Leyva
Breaking the alphabetical order we’ve been jamming on because this collection by @stevenleyva.bsky.social is so damn breathtaking
August 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Day 20 of the #sealeychallenge
August 20th- The Opposite of Cruelty, Steven Leyva
Breaking the alphabetical order we’ve been jamming on because this collection by @stevenleyva.bsky.social is so damn breathtaking
August 20th- The Opposite of Cruelty, Steven Leyva
Breaking the alphabetical order we’ve been jamming on because this collection by @stevenleyva.bsky.social is so damn breathtaking
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The study of poetry is anything but linear. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/lea... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #Booksky
August 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The study of poetry is anything but linear. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/lea... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #Booksky
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Day 5 of the #sealeychallenge finds me contemplating the beauties and shifty dualities of Steven Leyva’s excellent The Opposite of Cruelty. Traveling as of tomorrow but I’ll be back with more poetry faves later in the month! @sealeychallenge.bsky.social @stevenleyva.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Day 5 of the #sealeychallenge finds me contemplating the beauties and shifty dualities of Steven Leyva’s excellent The Opposite of Cruelty. Traveling as of tomorrow but I’ll be back with more poetry faves later in the month! @sealeychallenge.bsky.social @stevenleyva.bsky.social
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Beach been my job
August 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Beach been my job
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And hear me, my attitude is that no poetics is more or less natural than another. I tend to be anti-essentialist in that way. I believe we make choices with what’s a hand, with what’s familiar, with what we can imagine. And so love is an act of not just care but of imagination-expansion.
November 28, 2024 at 1:40 PM
And hear me, my attitude is that no poetics is more or less natural than another. I tend to be anti-essentialist in that way. I believe we make choices with what’s a hand, with what’s familiar, with what we can imagine. And so love is an act of not just care but of imagination-expansion.
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I’ve seen some poets so starved for love — I do mean love not attention — that the only poetics that feels “natural” to them is to scrape the syntax down to the bones. And I get it. We all do what we must. It’s not a judgement but a reminder that we must care for each other. How can love be centered
November 28, 2024 at 1:37 PM
I’ve seen some poets so starved for love — I do mean love not attention — that the only poetics that feels “natural” to them is to scrape the syntax down to the bones. And I get it. We all do what we must. It’s not a judgement but a reminder that we must care for each other. How can love be centered
Lovely night reading in Lancaster, PA
July 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Lovely night reading in Lancaster, PA
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On Poetry: June 2025. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @stevenleyva.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social #Booksky
June 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Applying an associative property as a way to resist cruelty. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/a-p... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #Booksky
June 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Applying an associative property as a way to resist cruelty. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/a-p... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #Booksky
My Father’s Day gift was gathering the family and watching GATTACA together. I think this is a film that can speak cogently to 2025.
“You want to know how I did it, Anton? I didn’t save anything for the swim back”
“You want to know how I did it, Anton? I didn’t save anything for the swim back”
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June 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My Father’s Day gift was gathering the family and watching GATTACA together. I think this is a film that can speak cogently to 2025.
“You want to know how I did it, Anton? I didn’t save anything for the swim back”
“You want to know how I did it, Anton? I didn’t save anything for the swim back”
June 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My goodness. This is a conversation that everyone needs to hear w/ Lauren K. Watel
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Forty Years in Nappies
Podcast Episode · Poetry Off the Shelf · 05/27/2025 · 52m
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June 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
My goodness. This is a conversation that everyone needs to hear w/ Lauren K. Watel
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