
Hailey Leithauser
Hailey Leithauser is the author of two poetry collections: Saint Worm (Able Muse Press, 2019) and Swoop (Graywolf Press, 2013), which won the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book Award and the Towson Prize for Literature. Her work has appeared in The Birmingham Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Cincinnati Review, The Hopkins Review, Plume, Poet Lore, AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, and The Yale Review. (updated 4/2023)
Leithauser’s AGNI poem “The Moon Speaks of Polar Bears” was chosen for The Best New Poets 2010.
AGNI has published the following work:
Tiptoe Ode
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
How to Curse a Demon
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
Sonnet Ending in Response of a Four-Year-Old Told to Stop Banging His Fork on the Table
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
Variation on Romance in the Time of Famine
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
Coronation
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
I Shall Name the Worms
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
Northern Wind
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
Fat Worm
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
Brass Knuckles
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
Crowbar
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
Sex Circumspect
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
Sex Odalisque
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser
The Failure of Sodom
Poetry by Hailey Leithauser