Category: Poetry
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“That crazy old lady”
Thank you, Ray Whitaker, for publishing my poem “That crazy old lady” as part of your highly successful world peace series on Masticadores Canada. That crazy old ladystill has her Christmas tree up!Indeed! Been three years now.The LED lights haven’t failed to sparkleat passersby walking their dogsand children playing in…
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“More Years of the Insane: A Prayer”
The Chaos Section Poetry Project published my poem “More Years of the Insane: A Prayer” on their site and in their new anthology, Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival. Thank you, Nick Allison and Rachel Armes-McLaughlin! Please visit the site and read other poems from the anthology. More Years…
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“Rocks” by Barbara Leonhard and Nolcha Fox
Latinos USA has a new column called REVIVAL. Nolcha Fox revived a poem we co-wrote three years ago. Thank you, Nolcha! And stay tuned. I’m also an editor for REVIVAL and am reposting content from Masticadores USA there, beginning with 2023. Subscribe to Latinos USA for daily updates. RocksI’m a…
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“There’s Never Enough of Me” by the Rengay Gals Up on MasticadoresUSA
Melissa Lemay, Nolcha Fox, and I have a Rengay poem up on MasticadoresUSA. You can follow this link to read the poem. “There’s Never Enough of Me” by Barbara Leonhard, Melissa Lemay, and Nolcha Foxsomething smelly is growing in the back of the refrigeratorIt leaves footprints of crumbs and smearsthe…
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“The Girl with the Pearl Earring” up on Collaborature
Thank you so much, Melissa Lemay, for publishing my poem and its translation by Yongbo Ma on Collaborature. https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2026/06/girl-with-pearl-earring-bl-ym.html The featured Image shows the beginning of the post. Here is a screenshot of part of Yongbo’s translation. Kindly follow this link to read the rest of the post. https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2026/06/girl-with-pearl-earring-bl-ym.html
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Published in the new Albanian Magazine Horizonte
Thank you, Angela Kosta, for featuring my poem in the first issue of your new Albanian magazine on culture, history, and literature! And I appreciate your including a photo of me holding my collection of satirical speculative poems and stories, The Lost Book of Zeroth (See information about the book…
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Held on Purpose by Cynthia Cady Stanton
I felt so moved by this poem that my youngest sister, Cynthia, wrote for me. When I was nine, Mom gave birth to fraternal twins (under hypnosis, by the way, – courageous!). Cynthia and Christopher. I was nine years old and loved taking care of the twins. My sister Martha…
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“Trapped by Poseidon in a Chevy Impala” up on LatinosUSA – English Edition!
Thank you, Juan Re Crivello, for publishing my poem “Trapped by Poseidon in a Chevy Impala” on LatinosUSA! This poem is based on a true story about my being trapped in a car with a sexual predator when I was a teenager. I used mythology to tell my story. You…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Casey Robb’s “Morning Glory Moon”
Casey Robb’s poetry collection Morning Glory Moon: A Weaving of Free Verse and Forms is a masterful work that includes sonnets, villanelles, ekphrastic poems, pantoums, blank verse, free verse, terzanelles, rondels, and rondelets, among others. That alone makes this book a manual for developing poets. Although crafted according to rules of rhyme, meter, repetition, and formulas, the poems…
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Poetry Up on The Short of It!
My gratitude to Susi Bocks for publishing a selection of poems today on The Short of It. Please head over to her beautiful site to read the poems.