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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 15d

Reposting because we found @stevenleyva.bsky.social on here!

Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 21d

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! 🕰️

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 22d

Write poems. Read poems.

Poetry at Palisades Reading Series
October 12, 2025
Featured Readers Steven Leyva and Michael Tager

212 Washington Avenue
Fifth Floor
Baltimore, MD 21204

Email PoetryatPalisades(at)gmail.com for more info. Bring a poem to share!

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 21d

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! 🕰️

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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks so much

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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · 16d

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

a girl with white hair is reading a book and holding a cup

ALT: a girl with white hair is reading a book and holding a cup

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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 18d

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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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · 29d

Might be a good time to read or read this poem

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43076/...

Middle Passage

I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the dying; horror the corposant and compass rose. Middle Passage: voyage through ...

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · Sep 8

O’s. Magic.

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Aug 15

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...

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

The cover of the Steven Leyva book The Opposite of Cruelty

Seasonal Depression
Give the termites your worry / about affording the rent. They too / are saying, eat the rich.
Two kids up / the block slash a neighbor's tires / while the elderly / couple are away at a wedding. Why / do I even bother to tell / anyone who's listening / that everyone involved was white / except me? Give the newborn / mosquitos their banquet of blood and your worry / about diabetes and rotted teeth. Who can say / what insectivore / is waiting / to eat the things that eat / your worry. Joy: the long-tongued sloth / or joy: the pitcher / plant. Given the insistence on phoenix your tendons return to / given the moles that arrive / on your neck / year after / year from your grandmother / given the fact / that every elegy fails / to reach its true audience / why do I bother / to slash and slash and slash / white from this page?

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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · Aug 4

The study of poetry is anything but linear. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/lea... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #Booksky

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · Aug 5

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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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · Aug 1

You are here:

The cover of August and Everything After by Counting Crows with the word “August” circled with digital paint.

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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · Aug 1

Beach been my job

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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · Nov 28

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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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · Nov 28

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

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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · Jul 25

Lovely night reading in Lancaster, PA

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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · Jun 19

On Poetry: June 2025. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @stevenleyva.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social #Booksky

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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · Jun 16

Applying an associative property as a way to resist cruelty. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/a-p... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #Booksky

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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · Jun 16

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”