Category: Poetry
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Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry is Thriving
The Kindle version of Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry is doing quite well! Thank you all for your support!! Unruly things respond well to love, right? Product details During the pre-sales period, the stats were great in a couple of other categories.
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Published Today on American Poet
I have three poems up on American Poet. “Senescence,” “Winter Prayers,” and “The Girl with the Pearl Earring.” Thank you so much, editor Faiyaj Islam Fahim! https://www.americanpoet.org/2025/09/barbara-harris-leonhard-poetry-one-of.html You too can submit 10 poems with a bio and author image to Faiyaj Islam Fahim at the email address below. 📩 Email: americanpoet6@gmail.com🌐 Website: www.americanpoet.org My…
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Poetry up on Lothlorien Poetry Journal
Three poems were published on Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Thank you, Strider Marcus Jones! https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/09/three-poems-by-barbara-harris-leonhard.html The first poem is a surreal expression of how I felt hearing of the passing of my first husband. The second one is an epistle poem to my dad, who was a pastor. I wondered how…
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Dawn Pisturino’s Review of “The Lost Book of Zeroth” is up on LatinosUSA!
Nolcha Fox published Dawn Pisturino’s wonderful review of The Lost Book of Zeroth on Bookshelf on LatinosUSA. I am grateful to both Dawn and Nolcha for this book boost!! https://latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/dawn-pisturino-reviews-the-lost-book-of-zeroth-by-barbara-leonhard/ Paperback ($11.25)
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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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“Homeless Woman Applying Makeup on the Patio Outside Eatwell Grocery” up on MasticadoresCanada!
My Poem “Homeless Woman Applying Makeup on the Patio Outside Eatwell Grocery” was published on MasticadoresCanada as a reply to the submission call on the theme of “Women.” My gratitude to Editor Ray Whitaker. Homeless Woman Applying Make-Up on the Patio Outside Eatwell GroceryColor-stained hair, yellow as butter over crisp…
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AI Robots as Best-Selling Artists?!
In my research for my poetry collection The Lost Book of Zeroth, I have several poems about AI Robot Sophia, a creation of Hanson Robotics. Believe it or not, she was made a citizen of Saudi Arabia and the Ambassador for tourism in Abu Dhabi, the Capital of the United…
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More poems from the Anthology “Social Possibilities: Poetic Voices of Hope”
This week, I did a Barb’s Wordy Blurbs about Prolific Pulse Press’s new anthology “Social Possibilities: Poetic Voices of Hope”. I also have a Tanka poem and a Puente poem in the anthology. I used the anthology “Sunflower Tanka: An Anthology of Tanka, Tanka Prose, & Experimental Tanka”, compiled by…
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Sin-Eaters
A sin-eater is someone paid to eat a small ritualistic meal representing the sins of the deceased. By doing so, the person takes on those sins. What happens to this diner? Does s/he become a vessel containing the sins of the departed, who can now enter heaven cleansed of wrongdoing?…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 