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Leah Umansky is the author of three books of poems, most recently OF TYRANT, forthcoming with The Word Works in 2024. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC since 2011. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in such places as The New York Times, POETRY, The Bennington Review, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, Guesthouse, and Pleiades. She can be found at www.leahumansky.com or @leah.umansky on IG. "I Want to Write an Ode" owes a debt to Poetry Unbound and Pádraig Ó Tuama.