Susan L. Leary is the author of five poetry collections, including More Flowers (Trio House Press, forthcoming 2026); Dressing the Bear (Trio House Press, 2024), selected by Kimberly Blaeser to win the 2023 Louise Bogan Award; and the chapbook, A Buffet Table Fit for Queens (Small Harbor Publishing, 2023), winner of the Washburn Prize. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in such places as Indiana Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Smartish Pace, Cream City Review, The Arkansas International, and Harpur Palate. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami and lives in Indianapolis, IN.

Other poems by Susan L. Leary in Verse Daily:
November 9, 2024:   "Snow, Almost, Nearly" "There's a certain surrender..."

Other poems on the web by Susan L. Leary:
Two poems
"Girl House with Epigenetic Effect, or, A Tumult of Flowers"
"Eighth day"
"There Will Be More Sunrises"
Three poems
"The Professor Asks Me to Write a Joyful Poem"
"Pseudo Myth"
"A Student Says 'Empathy Doesn't Make Sense'"
"Dramatic Irony"
Two poems
"Entertainer of the Year"
"Daytime Manifesto"
Two poems
Two poems
"Floating Gospel"
"These Days"

Susan L. Leary's Website.

Poetry Editors: Sarah Brockhaus * Caroline Chavatel * John A. Nieves
Other poems by The Shore in Verse Daily:
April 4, 2025:   "Winter Harvest" by Doug Ramspeck
January 17, 2025:   "Heartbeat Sound Machine" by Jennifer K. Sweeney
January 16, 2025:   "The Bullets Are Thinking About My Body Again" by Michael Okafor
January 14, 2025:   "The Physics of It" by Brian Satrom
October 3, 2024:   "The Last Love Letter of Marie Curie" by Ash Bowen
September 29, 2024:   "Weary of the world, you play Starfield" by Gus Peterson

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