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Joy Leftow
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Joy Leftow (born in Washington Heights, New York City) is an American poet, fiction writer, essayist and artist.
Leftow's poetry is narrative and lyrical, and each poem tells a complete story. More recently, Leftow is exploring what she has labeled Bluetry, a rhythmic freestyle poetry, which she reads to music and which some reviewers have called "rap". Some poems have gained critical acclaim, such as "Tupelo Honey," "Advancing on Satori," and the more recent "Being Jewish," "My Mother," and "I Sing The Blues For You Today," all of which have been published in several journals. Her poems are often gritty and raw urban tales based on her unique observations and experience. Familiar themes in her work encompass analysis of identity and inclusion and family and social issues. She covers themes of overall inclusion and exclusion into various groups in general (the nuclear family) and organizations. Leftow's Jewish identity has become another developing theme along with her recent poetic performance /writing style, for which Leftow has created the name Bluetry, to describe her art form.
Joy Leftow claims to have written her first poem on snowflakes when she was four years old. After dropping out of high school and living for some time on welfare, Leftow restarted her education under the auspices of the New York State Higher Education Opportunity Program and obtained a B.A. from Columbia University in anthropology. During her undergraduate studies, she began writing again by taking elective writing courses. Leftow continued her studies and obtained a post-graduate Masters of Science in Social Work degree from Columbia University in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from City College of New York. Leftow maintains her Licensed Clinical Social Work licensing with NY State.
Leftow frequently appears on New York City radio shows, such as the Teachers & Writers Collaborative Radio Show, Everything Goes, Poetry Central, The Sounds of Poetry on Adelphi Radio WBAU-FM, Jazz Poetry Café with Phillip Gregory on WFLO, Cool on the Groove on Rockland World Radio Program and Indiefeed Performance Poetry.
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