[poems]
“Uplight,” Plume Poetry, January 2024
“Repainting,” Postcard Lit, Vol 1, January 2024
“Stun”, Minyan Magazine, November 2023
“I Want to Write an Ode,” and “Echo,” Hayden's Ferry Review, “Tiny Architecture Web Issue.
“It Might Just,” Magma Poetry, Fall 2022
“Poem with a Line From Ada Limon,” 14 Magazine, Fall 2022 (forthcoming)
“Even if the Body,” Guesthouse, August 2022
“There is a Place Where We Have All Been Wounded,” Poetry Wales
“Flight Path,” Banshee - Issue 13
“This is a Poem that Cares,” and “Long Life,” Paterson Literary Review,
“You Have to Make Up Your Mind About What You're Going to Love”- Jet Fuel Review
“Orbit” and “Becoming Unbecoming” in Air/Light Magazine
“Bird of One” in Fence Magazine (online)
“Second Arrow” and “A Happy Ending” in The Los Angeles Review
“More: Four scenes” in Bennington Review issue 9
"Narrative” in Salamander
“In Scatter” in Diagram
“Re-Imaging” in Los Angeles Review of Books
“Untitled,“ a Golden Shovel - New York Times, March 28, 2021
“Unleashed,” in Poetry Magazine,
“Lore” in BOAAT (forthcoming 2021)
“Beginnings” in Ecotheo
“Monologue,” Memorious.
“It Took a Disaster,” and “Off Ghazal” at The Volta
“Turn Articles into Poetry” (+ a new cento) in New York Times
“What’s More” The Account.
“Of Tyrant” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry Election issue.
“In the Gap” at Hobart,
A found poem, featured in “Find Poetry in the Pages of a Newspaper” New York Times,
“White Flag” and “Renaissance” in Green Mountains Review
“What does the X Mark?” and “I Want to Wear the Crown,” American Poetry Review 2020-2021
“Heart Out,” in The Literary Review
“Tender,” and “God is God and the Universe is the Universe” in Cincinnati Review in 2020. Video recording, here.
“It’s Like Everything You Love Broke at Once,” Thrush Poetry Journal, July 2020.
“Rise and Fall of the Tyrant,” Missouri Review in 2020
“Alternate Ending of the Tyrant,” in Glass Poetry Journal in 2020
“Tyrant as Self Reflection” Rhino 2020
“Survival,” from The Barbarous Century, featured as part of Ours Poetica
“Transference,” Poet Lore 2020
“Reflection Arithmetic” in Plume
“Self Reflection” in Poetry International
[of men] in Epiphany Magazine.
“Marvel (at Women) or Woman: Last Monster” Pleiades
“Year of the Tyrant,” and “Of Tyrant 2” in KGB Lit Journal,
“Woman Alive,” in Painted Bride Quarterly,
“Giant,” Sweet Literary.
“I Threw in an Extra Fuck,” Hobart
“Satisfied,” and “Life is a Fucking Nightmare,” at Berfois
Desire [even in the time of the tyrant] at Poem-a-Day at the Academy of American poets. August
“Gallop,” Columba Journal (online)
“Of Tyrant 3” on Love’s Executive Order
“What you Give to a Thief is Stolen” - North American Review
“Stay Quiet” online in Shrew Literary Journal
“Burn” , Connotation Press (online)
“Monster,” Magma Poetry (UK)
“Love the Beast” & “Forever,” Diode
“Woman Carrying Everything” Issue 6 - Bennington Review
“Come Pioneer,” in Poetry Northwest,
“Evolution Hinges From Its Mistakes,” Love’s Executive Order (online)
“Maeve 1 (after Westworld),” Persea Books’ anthology The Eloquent Poem
“Less” published at Ovenbird (online) Winter 2019
“What They Recognize is the Smell,” Poetry City, Winter 2019
“Make It,” published at On the Seawall by Ron Slate 2019
"A Harboring" and "Fire and Fury" have been published online at Berfrois.
Bernard 1 (after Westworld) is in the new July/August issue of American Poetry Review. Buy it, here.
"Millions of Crimes are Committed Each Day by No One", July issue of Glass.
"What Even Matters Anymore" (after Saturday Night Live) Love's Executive Order
“Cento” Prelude Magazine
Poetry Editor Terrance Hayes selected I want to be Stark [Like] for the New York Times Magazine. (4/8/18)
Two poems from The Barbarous Century were featured at And Other Poems.
Edge of the Wild, published in Guernica
"Stone," "Gasp," and "Lament," have been published online at The White Review (UK)
Climb and Low were both published in Matter: A (somewhat) monthly journal of political poetry and commentary.
The Westworld-inspired, "Dolores 1" and "Sonnet" both went live at Tinderbox Poetry Journal, thanks to Editor, Jenn Givhan.
Hannah Cohen featured the Westworld-inspired poem, "Dolores 1" at The Wilds.
Yes Poetry published my poem, "Victorious."
Tin House featured a poem from my upcoming collection, The Barbarous Century, out with Eyewear Publishing in March 2018, "Here is my Offering," in their Broadside Thirty online feature!
My poem, "Cupid, I'd Invite the Shooting," is live now at Shallow Ends.
My poem, "Sestina," is live now in the new issue of Plume.
My #GoT inspired poem, "Cersei" is now live in issue 68 "Margins," of Magma Poetry.
Three poems of mine "Sonnet II," "This is a Poem about Survival," and "I Leave." are forthcoming in a new anthology called, "Misrepresented Peoples," out in Fall 2018 with NYQ Books.
My poem "Stranger Is" is live now at Glass Poetry Journal
My poem "When Living Feels Like a Labor of Love" is live now at Rise-up Review.
My poem "Sonnet II" is live now at Hermeneutic Chaos Journal
My poem "Hinge" is live now at Shadowgraph Quaterly.
I am poet of the month over at The Inquisitive Eater for December. There are three poems & one essay.
"Doing" is live at Jet Fuel Magazine, December 2016
Here is a live-stream of my reading for the Transatlantic Poetry Series.
Hard, Thrush Poetry Journal Ed, Helen Vittoria, November 2016
"Night Tales," Border Crossing Ed, Julie Brooks Barbour, Sept 2016
"This is to Calm You When You Arrive," Slice Literary, Ed, Elizabeth Blachman, Sept 2016
"Scene From a Proper Spite" Minola Review, Ed, Robin Richardson, Sept 2016
"What Will I Do With All These Wolves" from Straight Away the Emptied World is featured online at Quotidian Bee, March 2016
"The Ambassadors - Part 5" POETRY, Ed, Don Share March 2016
"Once,”and “All My Days at the Open Dark” in POSIT, Susan Lewis, ed. (March 2016)
"Lonely is a Hard Word to Use in a Poem" Thrush Poetry Journal. Ed. Helen Vitoria, (March 2016.)
My poem, "When Time Crows" is online at PoetryCrush's Vol 3 of the Valentine's Edition.
I wrote a poem, "Spell" in response to a holiday prompt by Kevin Fanning for the Barrelhouse Magazine's Holiday Issue.
The Year of Enchantments,” Barrow Street (January, 2016)
"The Love Orphans," from About Place Journal, the Futures Imagined Differently Issue. Ed, Patricia Spear Jones. Fall 2015.
" I Heard the Sparrows Aging," [reprint] and "It's Nice to be Understood, Right," And Other Poems. (July 2015)
"I Heard the Sparrows Aging" Forklift,Ohio Ed, Matt Hart Spring 2015.
"This is A Love Poem" Philadelphia Review of Books (Sept 2014)
"Khaleesi Says, " "I Want to be Stark [like]," "Follow" to be translated into Norwegian ( Nov 2014)
"Poem in Which The Poet Takes A Step Back" Poems in Which (UK) (May 2014)
"Khaleesi Says"The Poetry Review [UK], ed Maurice Riordan. (April 2014)
“All That is Stark and Beautiful is Dead," and “In Song” Maggy (February 2014)
"Love Song of Fiona and the Axeman" Poetry Crush (online) (February 2014) Ed, J Hope Stein.
“Khaleesi Says,”, “I want to be Stark[like],” “Follow,” POETRY, Ed, Don Share (January 2014)
"For Reals" Thrush Poetry Journal (online) (January 2014) ed, Helen Vittoria.
"Don Dreams and I Dream" Poetry Crush (Online) (October 2013) Ed, J Hope Stein.
"When Boys Become Werewolves," "Love-Sweet," and "Where We'd Rather Not," The Brooklyn Rail ed. Anslem Berrigan, (September 2013)
“One Man’s Treasure is Another Man’s Trash,” The Inquisitive Eater, (Spring 2013)
"Careening," "The Savage Banquet of Machines," and "The Night-Genius", Statorec (online) (January 2013)
"Makers Mark," "In my Next Life, I Want to be an Ad Man" and "Beauty is in the Machinery" The Bakery (online) (December 2012)
“The Wonder Years” Everyday Genius (online) (November 2012)
"In Dreams Bare," "Another Story," Contemporary Verse 2, (Spring 2012)
"Messing With the Ashed" Lyre-Lyre:Vol 2. (Nov 7, 2011)
"Strange Machine," and "Life is a Verb," BOMB Magazine's BOMBLOG "Word Choice" (July 2011)
""What Literature Teaches Us About Love,"Eyresses (a zine) (March 2011)
Videos and Other Media
2013
Poetry & Pie Night- Rachel McKibbens and Jacob Rakovan - September 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sovZDLN6nc
Sunday Salon - NYC - April 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyDA8AfwP-0
Wednesday's Poem at BlazeVOX http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/news/wednesdays-poem-%7C-leah-umansky-108/
December 21, 2012: "Doomsday Massacre" on InDigest Magazine's YouTube Channel for the Apocalypse!
Scholarships and Awards
May 2012 - My poem,"Chess," won an Honorable Mention in "The 2012 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards" sponsored by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College!
May 23-30, 2010: Recipient of a 1-week scholarship to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony