Straight Away the Emptied World By Leah Umansky

Leah Umansky is a collage artist poet and writer in New York City She is the author of three books of poems most recently OF TYRANT forthcoming with The Word Works in 2024 She is currently working on a memoir DELICATE MACHINE an exploration of womanhood hope and heart in the face of grief and a global pandemic She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted The COUPLET Reading Series since 2011 Her creative work has appeared in such places as The New York Times POETRY The Bennington Review The Academy of American Poets Poem A Day and Wet Grain She is on IG leah. umansky Leah Umansky is a collage artist poet and writer in New York City She is the author of three books of poems most recently OF TYRANT forthcoming with The Word Works in 2024 She is currently working on a memoir DELICATE MACHINE an exploration of womanhood hope and heart in the face of grief and a global pandemic She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted The COUPLET Reading Series since 2011 Her creative work has appeared in such places as The New York Times POETRY The Bennington Review The Academy of American Poets Poem A Day and Wet Grain She is on IG leah. umansky site_link Wolves orphans enchantments oh my As Leah Umansky titles one of the poems in this new collection The First Rule of a Dystopia is Not to Know You re in a Dystopia Straight Away the Emptied World