Books:
Domestic Uncertainties , BlazeVOX Books (January 2013)
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: Receipient of a 1-week scholarship to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony
Upcoming & Previously Published Poems:
“When Boys Become Werewolves,” “Love-Sweet,” and “Where We’d Rather Not,” Brooklyn Rail (anticipated 2013), ed. Anslem Berrigan
“Notes to the Motherboard” Patsola Review (online) 2013 (anticipated)
“Turning Over Phrases,” Notice the Reference to Them Never Appears” MERCURY RETROGRADE:Snarled Communications, Fried
Electronics, Transport Mishaps. Kattywompus Press, 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
“If I Wanted to Attend It,” Ping-Pong Summer 2012
“Data-Driven Life,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, Spring 2012
“Domestic Uncertainties,” “Piece de Resistance,” Paterson Literary Review, Spring 2012
“In Dreams Bare,” “Another Story,” Contemporary Verse 2, Spring 2012
“Enjoying the Era Conscious-Like but Sentimental,” “Elementary, My Dear,” Barrow Street, Winter 2012
“Messing With the Ashed” Lyre-Lyre:Vol 2. Nov 7, 2011
“The Art of Unloving,” Cream City Review 35.1 Fall 2011
“Strange Machine,” and “Life is a Verb,” BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG “Word Choice” July 2011
“The Love Song of the Chambers of the Heart,” Paterson Literary Review, Summer 2011
“What Literature Teaches Us About Love,”Eyresses (a zine) March 2011
“Lunula”, Magma Poetry (UK) #49. March 2011
“Close up,” The American Voice in Poetry: the Legacy of Whitman, Williams, and Ginsberg, Spring 2010
“The Past,” “The Refusal,” Paterson Literary Review, Spring 2007.
“Faith,” “I Never Learned to Pray”, LIPS Magazine, Fall 2006.
“Tangent,” Paterson Literary Review, Spring 2005.
“The Unexpected,” “The Story of the Thing,” and “Touching,” Paterson Literary Review, Spring 2004
“Maybe One Night,” Harpur Palate. Spring 2003
Other Writing:
May 17, 2013 “Conversation with Ben Greenman: The Slippage” Tin House Blog
May 2, 2013:”Where Writers Write” part of TNBBC
!http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/where-writers-write-leah-umansky.html
August 23, 2012: Interview with writer, Carole Maso for BOMBLOG : http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6724
Poetry Book Reviewer for The Rumpus:
September 19, 2012 (Laura Cronk) “Having Been an Accomplice” http://therumpus.net/2012/09/having-been-an-accomplice-by-laura-cronk/
May 12, 2012 (Dorothea Tanning) “. Mouse Field Was a Triumph” http://therumpus.net/2012/05/my-mouse-field-was-a-triumph/
-February 15, 2012 (Carol Muske-Dukes) “I was Naked Face” http://therumpus.net/2012/02/i-was-naked-face/
-September 14, 2011 (Tom Sleigh) “Gnawed to Bone.” http://therumpus.net/2011/09/being-gnawed-to-bone/
Writer -thethepoetry blog
September 24, 2012, Interview with Victoria Redel http://www.thethepoetry.com/2012/09/interview-with-victoria-redel/
Additional Writing:
April 14, 2012 “Celebrities Share Beloved Poems During the Academy’s Annual Poetry and the Creative Mind Gala” Best American Poetry Blog http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2012/04/celebrities-share-beloved-poems-during-the-academys-annual-poetry-and-the-creative-mind-gala-april-5.html
March 5, 2012: “Loving Brit Pop Left Me Lonely” Holy Diver http://www.holydiver.net/2012/03/05/confession-loving-brit-pop-left-me-lonely/
I was a guest blogger for The Best American Poetry Blog from January 15-21, 2012. These are the posts:
Co-columnist: “Two Poets, One Party” BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG
- March, 7, 2011: “Allen Ginsberg’s Personal Photographs”http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/4943
-March 15, 2011: “Fringed” http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/4958
-March 31, 2011: “Ghosts” http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/4981
- April 27, 2011 “Translations and Celebrations” http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/5032
- May 11, 2011 “Freerange ’Rebirth’” http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/5043
-May 27, 2011 “Jackson Poetry Prize.” http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/5065
-July 12, 2011 “LISTS” http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/5712
- August 24, 2011 “UNDERWATER NY” http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6034
The Govnors Assembly Blog:
October 2011: “New York Tweed Run; Hot Off the Press”
http://www.theguvnorsassembly.com/2011/10/18/new-york-city-tweed-run/
National Book Foundation’s Blog:
April 2011: “Entering the House that is Poetry: In Honor of National Poetry Month”
http://www.nationalbook.org/2011_04_nba_poetry_housingworks_article.html
Videos:
December 21, 2012: ”Doomsday Massacre” on InDigest Magazine’s YouTube Channel for the Apocalypse!
