Sound Work. Montuno: Poetics, Improvisation, and Liveness at Pratt. Feb. 11.
Sound Work. Montuno: Poetics, Improvisation, and Liveness at Pratt. Feb. 11.

Critical/Creative Talk at the Pratt Institute: Feb. 11 2026

On behalf of the Cultural Research and Practice Lab, Dalia Davoudi and Shayla Lawz invite you to a talk and performance by David M. de León on Montuno: Poetics, Improvisation, and Liveness. Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026 | Time: 5PM | This talk is open to the public. A reception will follow. 

A poster advertising The Limerance Object book launch, November 7th at the Hudson Park Library, 6pm. Featuring Kenny Bradley, Mark Faunlagui, Thomas Dunn, David M. de León, and Mya Matteo Alexice.

Reading: The Limerence Object book launch

Join us on November 7th as these five talented poets (Mya Matteo Alexice, Thomas Dunn, Kenny Bradley, David M. de León and Mark Faunlagui) read their own work in celebration and conversation with Mya Matteo Alexice’s new chapbook The Limerence Object. Register at NYPL.

A poster for Poets Out Loud presents Disturbing the Peace at Hive Mind Books, 10/22/25 at 7pm. $10 Suggested Donation.

Disturbing the Peace: A Poets Out Loud Event

Join the @hivemindbookstore and Poets Out Loud community on October 22nd for Disturbing the Peace, a poetry reading and open mic series to uplift marginalized voices and fundraise for a better world. This month, we’re raising funds for GLITS, a Brooklyn-based organization that helps black and trans New Yorkers access

David M. de Leon stands in front of a purple Hunter college backdrop

Hunter College Assistant Professor

David is an adjunct assistant professor at CUNY Hunter for the Fall 2025 semester

The cover of OLIO by Tyehimba Jess

“Step Right Up: The Many Minstrel Shows of Tyehimba Jess’s Olio” in African American Review

“Step Right Up: The Many Minstrel Shows of Tyehimba Jess’s Olio” is live at African American Review Volume 57.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2024). Download link (Project MUSE)

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Updated Poetry Reprints

One of the consequences of publishing for two decades is that lots of things you’ve published disappear into the web or inaccessible print journals. I’ve added back a lot of them to the Poetry Reprints page and the Published Poems page.

Book cover for Ate Mais: Until More, the words over a blue and orange background.

Ate Mais: Until More. The Anthology of Latinx Futurisms

Ate Mais: Until More is out now with Deep Vellum Press. Order your copy here. Featuring David M. de León and 40 other contemporary latinx poets. From the website: Até Mais: Until More gathers poets from a diverse spectrum of Latinidad, sharing their truths, visions, wonderments, fears, and revelations. Visions

Poetry Night at the Library, September 10, 2024 6pm. Hudson Park Library. With Shayla Lawz, Zefyr Lisowski, and David M. de León.

Poetry Night at the Library: September 10, 6pm

Come join us for a lovely night of poetry from featured poets Shayla Lawz, Zefyr Lisowski, and David M. de León and stay for an open mic afterwards to share or hear from others. Signups for the open mic are first come, first serve, and doors will open at 5:45.

A nighttime scene on the rocky paseo del morro in Old San Juan, a small cat sits on top of a rock and looks at the camera

Daily Kos: The Battle over Cats in Old San Juan

Denise Oliver Velez writes on the National Parks Service’s ongoing push to “remove” the cats from el paseo del morro, and quotes from the poem and book project The Cats of Old San Juan. Caribbean Matters: The Battle over Cats in Old San Juan

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Semi-Finalist in the Snowbound Chapbook Award at Tupelo Press

On a Field in the Present was selected as a semifinalist for Tupelo Press’s snowbound chapbook prize.

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