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Her poems appear in Agni, the Gettysburg Review, Poetry, the Yale Review, and numerous other periodicals, and have been selected three times for The Best American Poetry anthology.

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Hailey Leithauser’s debut collection, Swoop, won the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book Award and the Towson Prize for Literature.

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Leithauser is the author of the poetry collections Saint Worm (Able Muse Press, ) and Swoop (Graywolf Press, ), winner of the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award.

Hailey Leithauser

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Poet Hailey Leithauser was born in Baltimore and raised in Maryland and Central Florida. In 2012, Leithauser's book, Swoop, won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award. Swoopwill be released by Graywolf Press in October 2013. 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 fo

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	How did Abraham Lincoln build the log cabin he was born in?
	Poet Hailey Leithauser was born in Baltimore and raised in Maryland and Central Florida.
	Abe the Lincoln veteran, remembering the Spanish Civil War, raised his hand and said: If I knew that a fascist was a great poet, I'd shoot him anyway.

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Hailey Leithauser is the author of Swoop (Graywolf Press, 2013), winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation.She is also the recipient of the Discovery/The Nation Prize, an Individual Artist’s Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, and the 2015 Towson Prize for Literature.

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