Steven Leyva

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

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Beach been my job

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.

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

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

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

a man in a white coat stands in a room with other men walking around ALT: a man in a white coat stands in a room with other men walking around

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”

Thanks for sharing this a while back

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Forty Years in Nappies Podcast Episode · Poetry Off the Shelf · 05/27/2025 · 52m

My goodness. This is a conversation that everyone needs to hear w/ Lauren K. Watel

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the hoot of being alive is how i’ll describe my best days from now on.

Of Poetry Podcast Books Podcast · Updated Monthly · Kitchen table conversations with poets, hosted by Han VanderHart.

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Poems > Gossip

Thanks for sharing these. That poem’s title is “Antiphonal”

“There are four lights!”

#iykyk #startrekTNG

Me

Becoming who you are takes work because that isn't who this world wants you to be.

Defy the world and become you.

Read poems like they were the best flavor of spindrift

Thank you for sharing this poem

Damn

New poem (1/2) in Bear Review

Text: The Ivy Bookshop presents.... Steven Leyva with Sandra Beasley 5.19.25 - 6 PM - On the Patio Author photos are of Leyva, a man with black skin tone wearing a red sweater and blue collared shirt, and Beasley, a white woman. Both are looking at the camera in close-up. The book's cover art is a designed image that emphasizes a "mirror" reality of above and below, and includes roses and a spiral staircase. The larger image has a light green background with ivy decorative elements.

Baltimore friends—tonight at 6 PM ET (Monday, 5/19) I'll get to be in conversation with the stellar poet @stevenleyva.bsky.social at The Ivy Bookshop to celebrate Leyva's collection, The Opposite of Cruelty (H/T @blairpub.bsky.social). Please join us on The Ivy's patio at 6 PM!

When I’m back on my BS

Envy, ultimately, may be the source of all writer’s block. Curiosity can transform envy. Protect your ability to sustain curiosity.

Peak fuckery

Oh I been saying that for real for like 2 years regarding this photo with my son

Oh this is the most ridiculous thing ever proposed.

Sort of in love with this accidental screenshot. S/o to @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social

So over for you hoes

Raisins be raising