Leah Naomi Green

Biography

Leah Naomi Green is the author of The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf, 2020), winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She received the 2021 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award and a 2021 Treehouse Climate Action Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Green teaches environmental studies and English at Washington & Lee.

See Work

POETRY / Spring 2022

The Transitive Property of Song

By Leah Naomi Green

Of course they sing—/ we have given them / no other verb.

POETRY / Spring 2022

Jacob Have I Loved

By Leah Naomi Green

I think I lost the genetic lottery, / my cousin told me // in one of the last conversations / we had

POETRY / Spring 2022

Object Permanence

By Leah Naomi Green

My daughter learns I’m there / even when I am not. I name this trust

POETRY / Spring 2022

One

By Leah Naomi Green

We understood it / to be suffering, its beak a little open.

POETRY / Spring 2022

Somewhere, she’s learned

By Leah Naomi Green

that color is not color. The red flower, / she tells me, absorbs all light / but red, so reflects red / where she and I can see it.