Category: Publication
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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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Praise for Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry
Bro ken Rengay is a collaborative poetry collection by Barbara Leonhard, Melissa Lemay, and Nolcha Fox. Inspired by the rengay form-created by Garry Gay in 1992 as an alternative to renga and renku-this book follows the six-verse linked structure while playfully breaking its traditional rules. Originally, Barbara and Nolcha collaborated on…
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Unruly Poetry on the Loose!
“Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry” by Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and Barbara Leonhard is officially launched on Amazon: Paperback $12.95. Kindle Unlimited: Free or purchase for $3.99. Check out this cool video introducing our book. Or you can order directly from Prolific Pulse Press for a discount: $10.95! Follow the link…
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“Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry” A Best Seller!
Melissa Lemay, Nolcha Fox, and I collaborated on a collection of Rengay poems that is being published by Prolific Pulse Press this week. It hit the best seller list in two categories before the Kindle Edition was uploaded today. My gratitude to Publisher Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld. As for new releases, the…
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Take a “Road Trip” with Nolcha Fox and Me!
“Road Trip”, which is by Nolcha Fox and me is up on Chewers by Masticadores. The flash fiction piece is in our book, Too Much Fun To Be Legal. It was also published by Roi Faineant Press. My text is in italics, and Nolcha’s is the rest……. Road Trip The…
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“Payne Comes for Tea” is up on MasticadoresUSA
“Payne Comes for Tea” by Nolcha Fox and myself is up on MasticadoresUSA! I loved writing this poem with Nolcha Fox. Our collaborations grew into the book Too Much Fun To Be Legal (Garden of Neuro Publishing, 2024). Payne Comes for TeaUninvited again.Slaps my ailing knee.“How’s it goin’?Not up and…
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“Grandmother Lilian” is up on MasticadoresCanada
My gratitude to Editor Ray Whitaker for publishing “Grandmother Lilian”, a contribution to his series “Women” on MasticadoresCanada. Ray’s current series on Women and his earlier one on Men are both fantastic. Please explore his blog and read, like, and comment on the posts. “Grandmother Lilian” is a memoir poem…
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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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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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