Hailey leithauser biography template

  • Poet Hailey Leithauser was born in Baltimore and raised in Maryland and Central Florida.
  • Poet Hailey Leithauser was born in Baltimore and raised in Maryland and Central Florida.
  • Poet Hailey Leithauser was born in Baltimore and raised in Maryland and Central Florida.

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    Hailey Leithauser

    Biography

    Poet Hailey Leithauser was born in Baltimore and raised in Maryland and Central Florida. In 2012, Leithauser's book, Swoop, won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award. Swoopwill be released by Graywolf Press in October 2013. Jeff Shotts, poetry editor at Graywolf, noted the playfulness of Leithauser's verse: “Leithauser is a risk-taker. She is innovative – with spirited titles and musical outbursts – but also nods to poetic tradition with rhyming sonnets and other lyric techniques.”

    Midnight’s merely blue,

    but me, me, me, I’m

    through

    and through

    sloe, cracked soot-

    on-a-boot,

    nicotine spat, licorice whip.

    You can scratch, scratch, scratch

    but I stay underskin true

    to ebony, ink, crowberry, pitch.
    (From ‘ Bad Sheep’)

    Hailey Leithauser originally took poetry workshops as an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, but stopped writing fo

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    Poet Hailey Leithauser was born in Baltimore and raised in Maryland and Central Florida. Leithauser has worked as a salad chef, real estate office manager, gourmet food salesperson, freelance copy editor, phone surveyor, bookstore clerk, fact checker, and, most recently, senior reference librarian at the Department of Energy in Washington, DC. Returning to writing after a break of several decades, her work has appeared widely, in publications such as Poetry magazine, Agni Online, Crazyhorse, the Gettysburg Review, the Iowa Review, Meridian, Pleiades,Yale Review, and and have been selected three times for The Best American Poetry anthology.

    Leithauser is the author of the poetry collections Saint Worm (Able Muse Press, 2019) and Swoop (Graywolf Press, 2013), winner of the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book Award. She is a recipient of The Discovery/The Nation

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    Two spots open in our Freedom of Form kurs tomorrow, and five spots each in our two remaining one-day creative writing workshops next month – I’d love to see you there. Check them out here.

    Me talking to me: Alison! For God’s sake, respond to all those piled-up emails. Clean up the kitchen. Teach yourself the WWI history you never learned. Scrub the tub, re-learn all those Chinese characters, get busy studying Spanish, go to bed at a reasonable hour, get up early and go straight to work. Alison! Do this do that do better!

    But sometimes inom don’t want to do better. Sometimes I just want to stay up late and make a martini and turn off all the lights and dance around my living room and dining room to loud music while the sly curvy lines of this poem spin round and round and round in my head.

    Late Night Poem, by Hailey Leithauser

    Better to risk, she says,
    the whiskey’s wheeze
    and the throttle’s urge
    and a blonde
    with curves
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