Susan L. Leary
@susanlleary
Poet | MORE FLOWERS (@triohousepress, 2026) | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, @triohousepress, 2024) + 3 📚 | Mayah 🐶
🚨COVER REVEAL🚨for DRESSING THE BEAR & it’s a beauty! Thanks to everyone at @triohousepress, to Kimberly Blaeser for selecting it, to my beautiful brother, & to my many friends here in the writing community—that’s YOU!!!—who, each day, make me feel loved!💙🙏 (PREORDER in bio!)
@triohousepress cover reveal! @susanlleary’s beautiful Dressing the Bear, now available for preorder! triohousepress.org/titles
"These poems awaken, seduce and interrogate the spirit, conjuring wonder from ennui, honouring wisdom, desire and loss as kin, blood-tied by the ephemeral. " My review of TEMPORARY SKIN by Romana Iorga (@GlassLyrePress) @TopTweetTuesday. vikkicauthor.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-revi… #poetryreviews
“The elegies began writing themselves.” A poem by Mary Biddinger.
For @TopTweetTuesday here’s my recommended reading! No review as I’m on my way to sunny Scotland, but all of these collections are fab and if you haven’t read them, you should! ❤️ @RegineEbner @leiabellebutler @taylorhamannlos @brokensleep @Grizonne @niaandthepoems @DaraghFleming
my first Publishers Marketplace announcement...this really feels like a milestone for me + am happy to celebrate with you all - gm!📘💙
Our annual contest opens for submissions August 1st! This year's guest judge is Andrew Porter. Keep an eye out for our Q&A with Andrew soon. Find more details about our contest here: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/
You write in order to be able to breathe. —Samuel Beckett
In addition to @VQR and @IowaReview, the @Colorado_Review also opens for submissions on 1 August! I wish I had stuff to submit 😭
I Don’t Want To Be Understood by @sadqueer4life @AliceJamesBooks #poetry #transpoetry
Something special has happened...my new book, Material, is coming via @triohousepress in 2026!
Towards A Retreat by Samaa Abdurraqib PRE ORDER NOW! diodeeditions.com
176 pocket sized hand sewn journals. Please support small business with a RT to help in the algorithm. Thank you 🙏 moranpress.bigcartel.com/products
Our chapbook open reading period is open through September 30! We’re seeking poetry (20–40 pgs) or prose (20–50 pgs) from writers of all backgrounds—especially those from marginalized communities. 🔗Submit here: smallharborpublishing.com/chapbook-open-… #poetry #prose #indiepublishing
“What kind of world / would let loose / a low orange moon / that shocks you / into being” — Maggie Nelson . . . This poem appeared in Boston Review, 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.
as i get older, nice weather is really something precious, something to enjoy, and something to talk about. like yes, this is a big deal. this sun, this light breeze. this is big.
open the door and allow the moon to enter your sanctuary Basho