Leslie Ullman is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Unruly Tree,(University of New Mexico Press, 2024), a collection whose poems take their titles from Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies. She also has published a hybrid collection of craft essays, writing exercises and poems titled Library of Small Happiness (3:Taospress, 2017). Her chapbook titled Self Portrait as Vanishing Act, a playful collection of self-portraits as mostly non-human phenomena, will be published by Lily Review Press in 2025. Professor Emerita at U.T.-El Paso where she taught for 27 years, she remains a faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts. Her awards include the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, two NEA fellowships and a New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for poetry. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.

Other poems by Leslie Ullman in Verse Daily:
December 16, 2006:   "Sky: An Inquiry" " Light is laying waste the heavens..."

Other poems on the web by Leslie Ullman:
Seventeen poems
"Peace"

Leslie Ullman's Website.

About Unruly Tree:

"Because there is no shrugging off 'the weight and shame / of being human,' the gift that Leslie Ullman's Unruly Tree offers is precious, as over and over its poems 'glimpse / something diamond pure / for a moment in ourselves.'"
—Harvey L. Hix

"Unruly Tree is a joyful, searching book that pursues questions about the world of creativity and play. In conversation with the Oblique Strategies--a deck of cards created in 1975 by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt--Ullman's collection is filled with curiosity, a desire to understand the thinking of other artists, and the beautiful uncertainties of the self."
—Jehanne Dubrow