Steven Leyva

Ugh 😩 . With so many good books out there too

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Come talk book reviewing with us at the University of Baltimore TONIGHT at 6 p.m.! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the... @stevenleyva.bsky.social @hsmithwrites.bsky.social #booksky

New Poem published today

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Let’s go!

Absolutely 💃🏾

So, I’m thinking about writers who run running routes for @awpwriter.org with literary landmarks. When we run by University of Baltimore I’ll say, “your favorite poet’s favorite poets went here: Steven Leyva, Tonee Mae Moll, Tafisha Edwards…etc etc etc.”

The cover of the book of poems Mouth, by Amorak Huey. Cover depicts a red-lipsticked mouth open in water.

Praise for Mouth The voice of Mouth is confident in its moves, sometimes breath-stopping in its leaps, by turns despairing and lusty, deeply funny, and-always— restoratively human. -Sandra Beasley, author of Made to Explode: Poems Amorak Huey's Mouth is an exploration-sometimes gentle, sometimes raucous-of one of the fundamental forces of nature: desire.... If we must crave and end, and if we must do it in this particular moment of human and geologic time-and, of course, we must-how lucky we are to have Mouth as our companion. -Molly Spencer, author of Invitatory If it is possible to make a guitar amp for the soul, to hear what moon, river, barn, and paramour all desire of each other, Amorak Huey has done it in Mouth. Each line is electric, illuminating poems that extend their metaphors, believing to endure in language is to make love endure. —Steven Leyva, Author of The Opposite of Cruelty

Mouth comes out this week.

#Poetry: Doesn’t it teach us how to mourn so that we’ll value having lived?

@stevenleyva.bsky.social asks in his stirring review of Rara Avis by
@blasfalconer.bsky.social
in @wirobooks.bsky.social

HoCoPoLitSo Let there be lit.

Very excited to be doing my first Wilde Readings event, with Steven Leyva, on Tuesday, January 13, 7:00-8:30 PM, at Queen Takes Book bookstore in Columbia, MD! There's also an open mic after our readings, if you're BOLD. :) More info and a fun interview here: hocopolitso.org #HoCoPoLitSo

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Steven Leyva reading at Motor House in Baltimore on Dec 7, 2025

Steven Leyva reading at Motor House in Baltimore on Dec 7, 2025

I saw poet @stevenleyva.bsky.social and several other Cave Canem poets this afternoon at Motor House here in Baltimore. Check out Steven’s incredible new collection - “The Opposite of Cruelty” - here: blairpub.com/shop/p/the-o...

Han VanderHart and Steven Leyva, on a cool April morning after brunch at The Boot Room. Han is wearing aviators (no light, no light) and a Leaf Village sweatshirt and Steven is wearing a red and blue adidas jacket and black avatar cap with a single white (pale blue?) arrow down the front

The Opposite of Cruelty by Steven Leyva, surrounded by hot pink azaleas in Han’s front yard

Larks by Han, with yellow forsythia blossoms, last month in March

The poets / the poems 🌸 🌼

@stevenleyva.bsky.social
@blairpub.bsky.social
@ohiounivpress.bsky.social

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Flyer for a reading at Fadensonnen. A pink bunny in the foreground, yllow background. The type: MESS AND FRICTION: BALTIMORE READING SERIES + DEC. 4 7PM FADENSONNEN UPSTAIRS TAVERN 3 W 23RD ST, 21218 STEVEN LEYVA JAMEY GALLAGHER PAIGE PASSANTINO TONEE MAE MOLL @MESSANDFRICTION @FADEN. SONNEN • ARTWORK BY EVANGELINE GALLAGHER

On Dec 4, I'll be part of this reading at Fadensonnen in Baltimore. I hope people will come. No word on whether the pink bunny will show yet.

Poem and the poem that inspired it

Poems are enough to move a human soul

Thanks so much

Big News!

That is amazing.

Thanks friend!

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.

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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On Poetry: October 2025. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #booksky

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

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!

Write poems. Read poems.

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! 🕰️

Thanks so much

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

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

High-fives, Handshakes, and Hugs: A fragmentary lecture while the ink is running out. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/hig... @stevenleyva.bsky.social #booksky