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Leah Umansky

@leahumansky.bsky.social

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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

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · 1d

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.”

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · 14d

@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...

Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · 18d

An old poem from West Trestle Review about the Equinox.

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · 25d

New poem in this beautiful anthology.

Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you, Derek!

Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · 27d

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Sep 10

One month ! 10/10 at 7pm
@coupletseries.bsky.social

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Sep 9

To sign up for the open mic (5 minutes per reader): www.signupgenius.com/go/4090A48AE...

Uncloistered Poetry Online - September 14

Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. Thank you!

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Sep 5

@sketchbookskool.bsky.social LOVE your 'Draw With Me: Poets!' and yes, high school teachers still teach Sylvia Plath.

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Sketchbook Skool @sketchbookskool.bsky.social · Aug 27

#sketch #inspiration #art #artists

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Aug 24

congrats @erikkennedy.com
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Erik Kennedy: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

_______________________________________________________________________________________ Classic Car Magazines You’ll usually find the problems you’re looking for. My father had a sunflower-yellow 1974...

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Aug 24

I started The Studio and my god I love Seth Rogan

Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Aug 23

Tell me your favorite movies or documentaries that have to do with creativity and artistry. This is for high school seniors.

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thank you @pw.org for sharing the news about @coupletseries.bsky.social 14th anniversary on 10/10/25 at 7pm
www.pw.org/literary_eve...

#coupletnyc
#14yearsofcouplet

The 14th Anniversary Edition of The Couplet Reading Series

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Aug 20

If you're interested in having me visit your classroom to talk about poetry, my new book OF TYRANT, curating a reading series, teaching, writing, submitting to journals or any of the above, please send me a message through my website. Link in bio. Available for virtual visits and possibly in person

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hope you enjoyed it and thank you

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · Aug 17

My sixteenth book for the Sealey challenge is @leahumansky.bsky.social’s Of Tyrant.

Of Tyrant, Leah Umansky (Word Works, 2024)

EVOLUTION HINGES ON ITS MISTAKES

I think about what falls away from us. I think about our greatest scares.
What is our broader wonder, if not one that hinges on what we have left? This world that indicates virtue, sometimes likes to thrive in vice.

The language of the tyrant hinges on what makes us human. I will make this more accessible: think of legacy, think of its magnitude and then think of what surpasses history and time. Is it death? Is it memory? Is it what is written down, or is it what is implicit in our rage?

There are thorns in his wrapper. There are thrashes in his wreck.

When the Tyrant says, I hereby demand, it is already inevitable. He is already eclipsing the truth, shunning the light. All tyrants lack, but in their lack is their eternity. They all live on, despite their downfalls, in haunt and in forever-shadow.

There are thirsts in this worth, and in this fearing. Realize the rot is only getting larger. No one expected the testing of this; no one expected to raise humanity from a lie. No one expected the theft of his wreck, his craft-landing, this carving of light. We are expected to cramp, skewer, scram, skiff and skid, but remember, the biggest iris is you.

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thanks Derek

Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Aug 2

Excited to announce that @coupletseries.bsky.social will return on Fri 10/10 at 7pm for its '14th' Anniversary Event, at our new home in Brooklyn Heights at Books Are Magic! Stay tuned for line up!
#coupletnyc

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · Jul 31

Surprise! We're thrilled to be publishing Maggie Nelson's THE SLICKS: ON SYLVIA PLATH AND TAYLOR SWIFT on 11/25. Originally published by Dopamine Books last year (and continuously selling out their limited edition), we're excited to get THE SLICKS back on the shelves 💜

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Jul 23

Wow. It so good and Mira is wonderful

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Jul 22

Loved this beautiful essay by Mira Ptacin at @longreads.com

longreads.com/2025/07/15/e...

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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · Jul 18

A new #staybrave with Claire Longtin North is live now.
Read. Subscribe. Share.

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STAY BRAVE with Leah Umansky | Substack

An interview-series on 'staying brave' in the creative life by woman-identifying writers for woman-identifying writers. Click to read STAY BRAVE with Leah Umansky, a Substack publication with hundreds...

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