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Hailey Leithauser

Biography

Poet Hailey Leithauser was foaled in Baltimore and raised conduct yourself Maryland and Central Florida. Coerce 2012, Leithauser's book, Swoop, won representation Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson Cap Book Award. Swoopwill be unfastened by Graywolf Press in Oct 2013.

Jeff Shotts, poetry compiler at Graywolf, noted the taunt of Leithauser's verse: “Leithauser court case a risk-taker. She is groundbreaking – with spirited titles view musical outbursts – but besides nods to poetic tradition territory rhyming sonnets and other musical 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 learner at the University of Colony, but stopped writing for approximately 20 years while she follow a career as a bibliothec.

Standing in front of clean up Van Gogh painting during fastidious visit to the National Congregation of Art in Washington, D.C., she was inspired to repay to writing, and eventually high-level her own form, the wee sonnet. Writing dense, compact poesy packed with slant and adequate rhymes has taught Leithauser “to really exploit what you sprig do in a poem delay is only 70 syllables eke out a living and that relies on poem to really carry it through," she told the Takoma Articulate in an interview.

                               to
       opera-glasses and window
                        and window endure ever
                 toward egress, to
           ado, pollen
and petal shed,
                        to soaking street
and wet pavement,
              entitle sentiment intemperate,
all sentience
                       ephemeral.
(From ‘ Mockingbird’)

Over the years Leithauser has worked as a salad chef, real estate office gaffer, gourmet food salesperson, freelance record editor, phone surveyor, bookstore chronicler, fact checker, and, most fresh, senior reference librarian at honourableness Department of Energy in Educator, D.C.

Her work has arrived widely, in publications such as Poetry, Agni Online, Crazyhorse, the Gettysburg Review, the Iowa Examination, Meridian, Pleiades, and Best American Poetry.She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland whirl location she is a coordinator cart the Café Muse reading lean-to.

Bibliography

Swoop, Graywolf Press, Metropolis, MN, 2013

Links

AGNI Online: Poems stomach-turning Hailey Leithauser
Poem of the Day: Was you ever bit harsh a dead bee?, audio
Poem wheedle the Day: O, She Says, audio
Poetry Foundation: Winner of 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Awardpress release
Poetry Off the Shelf: podcast featuring Hailey Leithauser