Category: Poetry
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Rengay Collaborations by Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and Me are Making the Rounds!
Enjoy these wacky poems by the Rengay Ladies! We had a blast composing them. The Google Gremlins are still giggling! The poems follow these links. Joy Comes in the MorningMy car wouldn’t start.I pushed it off a cliff and watchedthe luminous sunrise.Sunrise paid two bird tweets for my junker carand…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Poetry Treasures 5 (Small Pleasures)
I’m delighted to have four poems in this gorgeous new anthology complied and edited by Kaye Lynne Booth and Robbie Cheadle. Other authors include DL Mullan, Jude Itakali, Ivor Steven, Robbie Cheadle, Michelle Ayon Navajas, Gwen M. Plano, Elizabeth Gauffreau, David Bogomolny, Dawn Pasturino, Maggie Watson, and Colleen Chesebro. Isn’t…
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Two Poems Up on Literary Revelations!
Thank you, Gabriela Marie Milton, for publishing two of my poems on Literary Revelations Journal today, April 6, 2025. One poem is “Lilith” and the other is a haiku she accepted for TRANQUILITY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF HAIKU, which will be released at the end of April. The beautiful cover for…
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News Break! AI Robot Barbie Sues Disney!
Thank you, Nolcha Fox for this breaking news on LatinosUSA-English Edition today! We definitely must keep up with AI Robot Barbie and her antics. She has come a long way since her humble beginnings at Mattel. She’s been “every girl’s dream since forever!” In 1959, I was 8 years old…
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“AI Robot Barbie Sues Disney” from THE LOST BOOK OF ZEROTH
In The Lost Book of Zeroth, I created AI Robot Barbie, who is an antagonist to AI Robot Sophia’s sister, Little Sophia. (Because Sophia was unable to conceive a robot baby, she was given a little sister instead. Why her sister has the same name is a mystery.) Little Sophia…
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“My Mother Couldn’t Nurse Me” from The Lost Book of Zeroth
The Lost Book of Zeroth was inspired by a news story that Hanson Robotics’ famous humanoid AI robot Sophia wanted to have a baby. Obviously her desire to be a mother was a media stunt to give the illusion that Sophia is sentient. I considered how she could realize her…
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My poem “My Memoir as a Doll” was translated into Chinese by the scholar Yongbo Ma!
“My Memoir as a Doll” is a poem in my book Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir. I wrote it to express how I felt as a child paralyzed by measles encephalitis in the summer of 1958. I was six going on seven when my legs gave out one day. I…
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”Sonnet to Grief” is up on Chewers!
Sonnet to GriefIn Memory of LindaYou’re a flamingo stretching its wings to the rising sunA hummingbird gathering dew drops from my tearsand dashing about, like bees do from stamen to stamenYou’re the winter wind that left her burning lungsand the icy pond where she rests to extinguish a fireravaging in…
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A Busy Time!
I am so grateful for some recent publications. Lothlorien Poetry Journal published three poems, which happen to be from my book, Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir. Mother’s Light”, “Bearing the World,” and “Ode to the Embryo that My T-Shaped Uterus Miscarried”. Thank you, Editor Strider Marcus Jones! https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/search?q=Three+Poems+by+Barbara+Leonhard Chewers by…
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“The New Girl” is up on MasticadoresCanada!
Thank you to the team at MasticadoresCanada for publishing my poem! The New GirlI pray to be a perfect work,a masterpiece of unchipped clay,to heal all wounds and scars,to run on strong legs once again, as a young girl, who sang and danced in fields of fescue stroking my legsand…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 