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A New Review up on MasticadoresUSA!
I was honored to be asked to review Mark Hofmann’s book. I hope the review inspires you to purchase Good Mourning! Mark is an award-winning Herald-Standard columnist. This review has a link to one of his columns. Humorists are so needed in these stressful and troubling times, don’t you think?
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Spooked!
I have a new memoir poem up on Scuzzbucket! Thank you, Franco Amati, for publishing “Spooked”. This event was either a haunting or a shared dream. You decide. Thanks for reading! Have you ever experienced something like this? Here is the start of the poem, and I hope you enjoy…
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Chew on This 🤣
Thank you, Michelle Ayon Navajas, for publishing this fun collaboration by me and Nolcha Fox!
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Grief and Joy Ride the Smiler
Grief and Joy Ride the Smiler The wacky 14-loop roller coaster ride invites laughter and loss. Grief screams and hangs on to Joy as though proposing. The reeling, a dance of ups, downs, ins and outs. Twists and turns. Joy loses her lunch on Loop 8, Grief, his last two…
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Four Poems up in Lothlorien Poetry Journal!
Thank you, Strider Marcus Jones, for publishing my four poems written in the manner of Emily Dickinson. “As For Death” “I Wish the Words” “There was a Knock” “My Mother Haunts My Twitter Feed” I wrote the first drafts of these poems after attending an online Emily Dickinson Tell It…
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I have a poem up on Chewers!
Thank you, Juan re Crivello, for publishing my poem, “Sleep Sit”! ”Sleep sit” means “to rest from labor”. In this poem, I empathize with those whose lives are devoted to farming and working the land. @BarbaraLeonhar4 Amazon Best-Selling Author, Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (EIF-Experiments in Fiction, 2022); Pushcart Nominee Facebook: Barbara Harris…
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Huge Updates on MasticadoresUSA and Other Masticadores Magazines!
As you know, I am the Editor for MasticadoresUSA. I’m sharing big news at MasticadoresUSA! Read on for revised submission guidelines, plans to start nominating for Best of the Net and Pushcart next year, and growing views and visits to MasticadoresUSA and Masticadores.com! Please submit! Be a part of our growing…
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Poems Published in Various Places
I hope you enjoy this menagerie of poems. On November 10: “Homeless Woman Applying Makeup on the Patio at Eatwell Grocery” was published on Hotel Masticadores USA. I wrote this poem while observing the woman one morning on the outdoor patio at Eatwell Grocery. Homeless Woman Applying Make-Up on the…

