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Steven Leyva

Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in 2 Bridges Review, Fledgling Rag, The Light Ekphrastic, The Cobalt Review, and Prairie Schooner. He is a Cave Canem fellow, the winner of the 2012 Cobalt Review Poetry Prize, and author of the chapbook Low Parish. Steven holds a MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he teaches in the Klein Family School of Communications Design. 

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'This Work Will Take Dancing:' Poems by Amanda Rodriguez and Steven Leyva

by Steven Leyva and Amanda Rodriguez October 22, 2018December 3, 2020

Two stunning poems by Amanda Rodriguez and Steven Leyva exploring the metaphysical terrains, and how spirituality moves alongside of us and the land.

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'This Work Will Take Dancing': Family Poems by Steven Leyva and Guillermo Cancio-Bello

by Steven Leyva and Guillermo Cancio-Bello September 24, 2018December 3, 2020
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Two poems: "Playing Levee" and "Rutherford Selig Stops for Gossip in Green Country"

by Steven Leyva April 19, 2017December 3, 2020

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