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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Leah Umansky is the author of The Barbarous Century, out now with London's Eyewear Publishing, among others. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the curator and host of The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as POETRY, Magma Poetry UK, Barrow Street, Pleiades, Salamander, Plume, and the anthologies, The Eloquent Poem (Persea) and Misrepresented Peoples (NYQ Books). She is #teamkhaleesi & #teambernard
Also by Leah Umansky:
The Barbarous Century
Straight Away the Emptied World
Don Dreams and I Dream
Domestic Uncertainties
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Stranger Is
Millions of Perfect Crimes are Committed Every Day By No One
I am tired of my share of danger. Each day, another attempt at the masses, at millions
Of these stories, these packed lies, these see-through mistings of truth, of damage, of
Attempted burying. No. We must meet their mystery with witness & perfect
The heart of our stories. How can this be the 21st century, now under his eye? All these crimes
Are a stake in the heart. I can’t help bending my anchor to plant me here, in the now. Are
We without longing? Without the streaming of dreams? I want a better future. I am committed
To this miracle & to the value of this weight. Each day, I consent. I care. I matter. In every
Way, I am looking past the grim. I say to the tyrant, get used to this haunting, for your day
Is coming & it is not just an apology, or truth you will have to unearth. By
God, you are not even worthy. We will make you insignificant. We will slender you, no,
We will cleave your outrunning, so you will rue this new day. It won't take many; it will take just one.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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