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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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FEED THE HOLY: A New Literary eZine
The response to my first submission call has been gratifying. People are eager to share in the healing process of self and society. I’ve explored the theme of feeding the Holy in more depth since you first saw the submission guidelines. I wrote the following, which includes credit to Martin…
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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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FEED THE HOLY Submission Call
I have my own literary eZine called FEED THE HOLY. In this post, I explain all about it and there is a submission call. I hope you submit! https://feedthehol.blogspot.com/2024/11/feed-holy-submission-call.html
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In the Midst of Hate….
Since the 2024 election results, I’ve been grieving about how divided our country is and how misled by fear we are. I’m sorting through my emotions, looking for hope. I cannot tolerate the Trump policies. I don’t want to summarize them here because I am certain you are informed. In…
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A Collection of Rengay Poems up on Medusa’s Kitchen!
Enjoy this tasty collection of collaborative Rengay poetry by Melissa Lemay, Barbara Leonhard, and Nolcha Fox! Medusa’s Kitchen For More of My PoetryThree-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir Too Much Fun To Be Legal
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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…
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I received a 2025 Pushcart Nomination for “Ophelia”!
It was great to wake up to an email from Spartan Press announcing that one of my ten poems published in their anthology, Rough-Cut Elegies, has been nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize. I’m grateful to the Editors, Jason Ryberg and Sharon Singingmoon. Ophelia There is a willow grows aslant…
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“You’re the Cream in My Cadaver” is up on Chewers!
Thank you, Nolcha Fox, for publishing this Rengay poem by the Rengay Ladies!!
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