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sethwleeper.bsky.social
Poet. Teacher at Brooklyn Poets. Work in/forthcoming: Foglifter, Waxwing, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, and more. @sethwleeper on Instagram https://linktr.ee/sethleeper www.sethleeper.com Photo Credit: Savnnah Lauren
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Fulfilled a lifelong dream today meeting my lifelong muse @toriamos.bsky.social who was generous and gracious! I’m still processing the experience, which was a great privilege. Congrats Tori on releasing TORI AND THE MUSES! Friends, buy your copy here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735358...

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Excited to have an essay upcoming in @salamandermag.bsky.social

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One more day to register for this workshop with @sethwleeper.bsky.social!

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In this five-week, generative online workshop with @sethwleeper.bsky.social, we'll learn the rules of various poetic forms to discover the places we can subvert them, and we'll end the workshop by crafting our own invented form. Register by March 2nd! brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...

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Don't miss your last chance to register for these upcoming workshops with @ds-waldman.bsky.social, @sethwleeper.bsky.social, @storiesandnoise.bsky.social and Alexis Aceves Garcia! Learn more about each at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

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Gratitude to my dear friend @joankwonglass.bsky.social for inviting me to be a guest writer this week for her brilliant substack, They Say Poetry Is Dead… Read a Pantoublock first published in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social & write from prompts! Sign up for Joan’s substack! joankwonglass.substack.com

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will i ever stop writing about/to the moon? not until the moon writes about/back to me! (c’mon, moon!) 🌙 i’ve got 2 new poems in the winter issue of The Poetry Review (@poetrysociety.bsky.social). here’s one of them, “Quintessential Lunar Actions”—

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Final hours to register for this workshop with @omotarajames.bsky.social! brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

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This week we’re sharing upcoming workshops with @ds-waldman.bsky.social, @sethwleeper.bsky.social, Angel Nafis, @storiesandnoise.bsky.social, Alexis Aceves Garcia & @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social. Save $15 during early registration through February 9th. Learn more: mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...

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Tomorrow night! Come celebrate Eduardo Martinez-Leyva’s debut COWBOY PARK!!!

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Back at Brooklyn Poets this season for a new workshop! Register here: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...

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i’ve got 2 new poems in Quarterly West!! here’s one of them, “12 Questions,” which is inspired by Bhanu Kapil’s questions from The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, a book i remain completely obsessed with for both poems: quarterlywest.com/issue-113-chen

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always, always this Jean Valentine poem

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An opportunity to make a direct impact for a family in need: gofund.me/8c3b3b1f

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updated our cover art here to show off this amazing work by Palestinian artist Amal Azzam which we featured in our last issue 🫶

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That is breathtaking Chen🌕🦋✨

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Read “Portrait of My Mother Studying for Her Citizenship Exam,” a poem by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva: “She sits on the corner of her bed, head tilted to one side. Licks the tip of / her thumb and flips through the thick booklet, trying to remember where / we left off.”

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It’s hard to think about love lately, but it's also the only thing worth thinking about. @honeyliterary.bsky.social, which centers marginalized writers & artists, is open for subs til 12/16. As Valentines Editor, I'd love to see any form of artistic expression touching on all types of love. ♥️

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New poem out in the new issue of Salamander! “peels” is from my manuscript “anatomy of a star”.

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Back at Brooklyn Poets for another drop in class. First class is 2/17. Register here! brooklynpoets.org/drop-in-cale...

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The balm I need today. Please, do go on living.

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This album grows on me more and more each year.

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Received my contributor copies of Prairie Schooner! So grateful to the editors for including my poem “shake it” from my manucript “anatomy of a star”! Get a copy of the latest issue and read the other amazing writers here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/current-issue

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brooklynpoets.org/workshops/al... Also…sign up for my workshop? We’ll talk about pretty things…and some other stuff…

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Can’t sleep, so… BEHOLD, an orange! That’s all.

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