Steven Leyva
Poetry
Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 2 Bridges Review, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, Vinyl, and Prairie Schooner. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish. Steven holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he is an assistant professor in the Klein Family School of Communications Design.
How Our Sons Learned to Fight
“ Lately, I have been curious about the relationship between despair and tenderness. That thinking evoked imagery from the only two physical fights and the many near fights I participated in as an adolescent. The blustering, bluffing, and embracing reminded me of a kind of choreography and some of the elements of Laban Movement Analysis. ”