Category: Collaborature
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The Rengay Ladies Swarmed by Honey Bees!
“Honey Bee” is up on Collaborature! Thank you. Melissa Lemay! Follow this link to read the Rengay poem and other posts. It’s a beautiful journal. There are monthly contests! Submissions are open. Submit here. https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/11/honey-bee-nf-ml-bl.html More Rengay poems by the Rengay Ladies
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Treats from Robbie Cheadle!
On Treasuring Poetry (Part of Writing to be Read), Robbie Cheadle published an interview with Melissa Lemay about Melissa’s journal Collaborature, Melissa’s favorite poet and poem, and her collaborative poetry collection with Nolcha Fox and me, Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry. Following the interview, Robbie shares her positive review of the…
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“Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry” A Best Seller!
Melissa Lemay, Nolcha Fox, and I collaborated on a collection of Rengay poems that is being published by Prolific Pulse Press this week. It hit the best seller list in two categories before the Kindle Edition was uploaded today. My gratitude to Publisher Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld. As for new releases, the…
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“Pain Will Do That” Published on Collaborature
A Rengay collaboration penned by Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and me, has been published on Collaborature. Thank you, Melissa Lemay, for featuring our work! Here are the first three stanzas. Pain Will Do thatpain is the perfect weight loss planfood tastes bittereven cheesecake makes me fleeholding a pen too long—my…
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“Water Damage” up on Collaborature!
Thank you, Melissa Lemay, for publishing our Rengay collaboration “Water Damage” on Collaborature. Melissa labeled which stanzas she, Nolcha, and I wrote. https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/07/water-damage-nf-ml-bl.html Please take time to read and comment on other posts on Collaborature. Melissa is taking submissions. You may want to submit to her monthly contests. Check out…
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“Ode to a Yard” up on Collaborature!
Yongbo Ma an esteemed Chinese scholar and the most highly regarded poet in China, translated my poem “Ode to a Yard”, and our collaboration is up on Collaborature. Thank you so much, Editor, Melissa Lemay! Thank you for following this link to read the collaboration… https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/06/ode-to-yard-bl-imy.html
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“Follow Me” is up on Collaborature!
My gratitude to Editor Melissa Lemay for accepting and publishing my haiku “Follow Me”, which is illustrated by a photo of the riparian forest on the Missouri River taken by my husband, Dierik. You can view the haiku and photo by following (no pun intended 🤣) this link. While you’re…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Me a Guest Judge for Collaborature?!
I’m grateful to Melissa Lemay, founder of and editor for Collaborature, for inviting me to be the guest judge for the month of April. I read each entry several times and appreciated the opportunity to judge each and every one. I selected an ekphrastic poem “Unstrung” by Mary Stebbins Taitt…
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Sun Dog: A Leonhard Collaboration up on Collaborature
Collaborature published the following collaboration between me and my husband. I sometimes write poems to photos he takes on his river kayaking ventures or hikes. Check out the beautiful presentation on Collaborature! https://collaborature.blogspot.com/search?q=Sun+dog Sun Dog* The setting sun peers through clouds. A sun dog arches its back, stretching the light…
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Publications on Collaborature!
I’m behind on expressing gratitude for publications in Collaborature, Melissa Lemay’s literary journal. Melissa’s WordPress blog is Mom With a Blog. Please take a look and show Collaborature (and Melissa’s blog) some love! “Clipped Together: An Interview with Barbara Leonhard” This interview also contains a few of my poems. https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/01/clipped-together-bl.html?q=Barbara+leonhard…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 