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Hailey Leithauser
Biography
Poet Hailey Leithauser was born in Baltimore and raised in Maryland and Central Florida. In , Leithauser's book, Swoop, won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award.Swoopwill be released by Graywolf Press in October Jeff Shotts, poetry editor at Graywolf, noted the playfulness of Leithauser's verse: “Leithauser is a risk-taker. She is innovative – with spirited titles and musical outbursts – but also nods to poetic tradition with rhyming sonnets and other lyric 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 undergraduate at the University of Maryland, but stopped writing for almost 2