Author of Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (EIF-Experiments in Fiction, 2022). Pushcart Nominated Poet 2022. Editor MasticadoresUSA.
Thank you, Juan Re Crivello, for publishing this collaboration written by myself (right aligned) and Nolcha Fox (left aligned). Such fun! I find her in my attic rummaging through an old cedar chest filled with broken hearts. She’s donned Mom’s silky wedding dress. But on her head, Grandpa’s fedora. Her shoes, Grandma’s slippers. In her... Continue Reading →
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But numbers don’t measure success, it’s our love of writing about what matters. It’s all about our soul work. Our creations touch lives. Build connections. And in a divided world, it’s the writers and poets who lend a healing hand and serve up meals of luscious wisdom to hold us all together.
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Thank you, Juan Re Crivello, for publishing this collaborative piece by me and Nolcha Fox. We are so delighted! The gremlins ate my links for lunch, I cannot get to Amazon. Now they’re eyeing photographs I stored on my computer. Social media may be next. Will I be erased? They spoon stuporinto my coffee.Stir in... Continue Reading →
Juan Re Crivello, the Director and Head Editor for Masticadores, has a new Masticadores blog called Hotel Masticadores House. It is open for submissions for works on grief. I just happened to be working on another poem, an Ameri-Ku, about me and Mom, so I submitted it. Thank you, Juan, for publishing my poem! Submit to Juan... Continue Reading →
For the past half week I’ve felt heavy hearted and physically sore. Today I just had to go back to bed and sleep. I finally realized I was grieving Mom because April 3 is the anniversary of her passing.
It makes me wonder what lies beneath other dark days I have. Did something happen to me that I left buried and hidden? That in some mysterious way became my root, my grounding, and my new blooms?
…. isn’t a secret as we all till the ground for the daffodil, sprung each spring before an unexpected snow that bends our backs so low we wonder if we can survive The weight of a lingering winter We brace the cold, wet tears and all hold grief in a sacred spot where its roots can uphold us once the frost melts Copyright © 2023 Barbara Harris Leonhard All Rights Reserved
Barbara is author of Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (EIF- Experiments in Fiction, 2022). A poem from this collection was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022. Also, on Spillwords, Barbara was voted Author of the Month of October 2021, nominated Author of the Year for 2021, and recognized as a Spillwords Socialite of the Year in 2021. In November 2022, she became Editor for MasticadoresUSA. Barbara enjoys bringing writers together and started hosting open mics and readings on…
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Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 