Category: Poem
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Another Fun Poetry Collaboration with Yongbo Ma
Thank you, Yongbo Ma, for submitting our collaboration to the first issue of Poetry Appreciation in 2025. Published by Changjiang Literature & Art Press in December 2025, ISBN 978-7-5702-4302-0. I call Yongbo the World’s Poet Laureate because he translates many poets’ works. I’m certain they are all as grateful as I…
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Breaking News!
Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry made the Poetry 2025 Book List! Unfortunately, you have to scroll through a list to locate the book. https://www.clmp.org/news/poetry-of-2025/ And “There’s Never Enough of Me”, another Rengay poem by Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and me, has been published on LatinosUSA. Thank you, Nolcha, for publishing…
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“It’s All About Death, Really” up on The Chaos Section Poetry Project
My gratitude to Nick Allison, editor, for publishing my poem “It’s All About Death, Really” on The Chaos Section Poetry Project and in their anthology What We Hold Onto: Poems of Coping, Connection, and Carrying On. The anthology is co-edited with Rachel Armes-McLaughlin. You can read the anthology for free…
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Amazing Anthology on Dreams Available Now!
I’m delighted to say I have three poems in this new anthology edited by Robbie Cheadle and Colleen M. Chesebro. The theme this year is dreams. My poems follow. The link to order the anthology is provided in this reblog and my post below. 1.Rescued (A Tanka Puente)Night dreams rupture…
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“Payne” Keeps Showing Up for Tea!
“Payne Comes for Tea” is up on Chewers by Masticadores. Thank you so much, Nolcha Fox, for this collaboration. As you said, you and I are a payne! 🤣 We could not have written our poems without Payne hanging around so much. “Payne Comes for Tea” is one of the…
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A Tiny Poem up on Little Chews
Thank you, Editor Nolcha Fox, for publishing “Orange Sun” on Little Chews. I wrote “Orange Sun” during an online workshop offered by Cheltenham Poetry Festival. Orange SunHalf-consumed by smoky skiesIt slips slowly into the billowing cloudsA life half-spentA life that wants to sleep forever.©Barbara Leonhard
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“Bringing Home the Bacon” by the Rengay Gals
Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and I are back at it! We hope you enjoy our new Rengay and then click on the purchase link to the Kindle book for Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry (Prolific Pulse Press, 2025). Paperback format is also available. Bringing Home the BaconPlease buy our bookIt’ll…
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Children’s Poems Up on Little Chews!
I’m delighted Nolcha Fox published my children’s poems for the Poetry Reading Project at a school for orphans in Kenya. I shared the first poem in my recent post on my blog. Please follow this link to see the entire post on Little Chews, which Nolcha Fox edits on LatinosUSA.…
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“You Beautiful Equation” up on Chewers by Masticadores
“You Beautiful Equation” was published today on Chewers by Masticadores. I am grateful to editor Nolcha Fox for providing poets and writers a beautiful home for their work. The poem is so short that you can read it in its entirety on the link below. However, give Chewers some traffic…
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Five Haiku about Tranquility up on FEED THE HOLY
The haiku I featured on FEED THE HOLY today first appeared in Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku (edited by Gabriela Marie Milton). You can read the haiku by following this link. While you’re there, take a look at some other posts. I’m thrilled that FEED THE HOLY has attracted so…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 