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Too Much Fun To Be Legal Author: Nolcha Fox and Barbara Leonhard Poetry by Women; Poetry Themes & Styles ISBN 978-1962077071 Format: Paperback, 5.0″ x 8.0″ Publication Date: August 3, 2024 Pages: 114 List Price: $9.99 available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other online stores. Garden of Neuro Publishing

Pick up Too Much Fun To Be Legal for humorous and thought-provoking reading. How about as gifts for family and friends who need a good laugh?

About Too Much Fun To Be Legal

Nolcha and Barbara decided to collaborate after Nolcha’s submission attachments to Barbara were mysteriously eaten by computer gremlins. Those gremlins were the topic of their first collaboration. It’s been so much fun to work together, it shouldn’t be legal.

Reviewers Say

Too Much Fun To Be Legal – sarcastic or spot on? Either way, it was insightful to take a metaphorical jaunt through the ups and downs of living, aging, and making choices in our world. You’ll enjoy this delightful collaboration; they’ve produced and presented poetry in such a quick-witted way.

– Susi Bocks, author of Every Day I Pause

I am a fan of the individual works of Barbara and Nolcha, and together they made an excellent poet duo. Too Much Fun To Be Legal is a brilliant and engaging collaborative collection of poems that make you rethink the nature of your own vision and structure of the world. The witty and remarkable play on words sets this collection apart from other published poetry books.

– Michelle Ayon Navajas, Amazon Best Selling Author of I Will Love You Forever, Too

Take this book in hand and find a quiet moment. As Nolcha Fox tells us in I’m no poetry groupie, “Images turn into / poems when / this old loner / basks in hush.” With Barbara Leonhard’s response, “My poems / are buried gems. / I dig in silence / searching / for each one,” you will be glad they found them.

– Ken Gierke, author of Glass Awash

Is there any better word to describe this book than WOW!? There truly is a relatable story in this collection for everyone. Nolcha and Barb are certainly two distinctly different people, yet through this collection, share one mind perfectly. Two different people flowing in harmony, the human equivalent of a Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup!

– Ken Tomaro, author of Potholes and Perogies

Writing is an act of community. Two poets working on the same poem(s) open the door to a wider community and even wider wisdom. Nolcha and Barbara turn reading into an act of generosity and imagination that reaches far beyond their words. Too Much Fun To Be Legal is a tour de force, turning these poems into a glittering invitation for all of us to join in.

– Walter Bargen, Missouri’s first Poet Laureate, author of Too Late to Turn Back

Thoughts by Ken Tomaro

I don’t think three sentences can describe what a great collection this is. There was a lot of wordplay I liked, but the poem, “If I was only,” really sticks out.

I don’t usually do current events, like mass shootings. I think writers jump on the bandwagon to bring attention to their own poetry rather than the actual event, but “No Words” was exceptionally well done and really brought to light the tragedy of the event, rather than you as the writers slyly saying, “Look at my marvelous poem…me, me, me!”

Many of these poems are so, so, so relatable, not wordsy or artsy just for the sake of being artsy, just good, down-to-earth poetry that will appeal to a large group of people. Honestly, it’s the kind of writing that makes me want to punch a wall (for good reasons) thinking, why…can’t…I…write…like…that?! 

I got to “Road Trip” and I feel like punching so many walls, my arm will fall off. I could never do short stories/flash and I’m so jealous of yours. And the poems just kept getting better and better. I don’t like anything, ever, but it is such a great collection!

I give it a solid 9 out of 10, only because there’s no such thing as perfection. If you want a 10, it’ll cost you $50 and 2 Chunky candy bars.

About the Authors

Nolcha Fox’s poems have been curated in print and online journals. Her poetry books are available on Amazon and Dancing Girl Press. Nominee for 2023 Best of The Net, 2024 Best of the Net Anthology. Nominee for a 2023 Pushcart Prize. Visual Editor for Chewers by Masticadores.

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Barbara Harris Leonhard’s poetry is curated in various literary magazines and anthologies. She’s also written a best-selling poetry collection Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (Experiments in Fiction, 2022), which is about her relationship with her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s. Barbara’s poetry has received awards and honors from Well-Versed 2021 and Spillwords Press. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Trending Poets named her Poet of the Year 2023. Some of her poems have been translated into Italian, Albanian, and Chinese. This year, Barbara and Nolcha Fox launched a book of poetry Collaborations, Too Much Fun To Be Legal, with The Garden of Neuro Institute. Barbara is also the Editor for MasticadoresUSA. She lives in Mid-Missouri with her husband and their cat Jasper, who refuses to go on drives to count deer. You can follow her on her blog: Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver.