Category: Poetry
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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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“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…
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Some of My Poems Are Published in Chinese by Yongbo Ma
Yongbo Ma published his Chinese translations of three of my poems in a magazine, “Dipper International Poetry Forum,” Issue 4, ISSN 1321-3622. Unfortunately, I do not have a link. Here are my poems along with Yongbo’s translations. A Broken Heart A broken heartThe construct of love breachedRivets on the bridge…
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“Picasso Dreams Broken Glass” up on LatinosUSA
Thank you, Juan are Crivello, for publishing “Picasso Dreams Broken Glass” on Latinos USA today. Here is the beginning of the poem. Picasso Dreams Broken GlassIn response to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol (2021) Thrust down with a fumbling handin the light of the slumberous mooncrashing into the crater…
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A Fantastic Review of BroKen Rengay: Unruly Poetry by Selma Martin
My gratitude to Selma Martin for her review of BroKen Rengay up on Goodreads. It begins … To grasp the elusive lightness of being, we need more buoyancy like you’ll find in this book. First, questions: what do you do when you’re living in the best of times, alongside the…
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Celebrating “Social Possibilities: Poetic Voices of Hope”
I was proud to have poems in Prolific Pulse Press’ anthology Social Possibilities: Poetic Voices of Hope. Contributors gathered for a Zoom bool launch. It was great to see people whom I publish on MasticadoresUSA and FEED THE HOLY. Follow the link below to view a YouTube video of readings…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 