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Interview up with Robbie Cheadle on Writing to be Read!
Thank you, Robbie Cheadle, for sharing my insights on poetry and reviewing my book, Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir for Treasuring Poetry on Writing to be Read!I invite you to read the interview, which is linked below. In it I explored the use of metaphor in Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The…
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“Early Spring Snow” published on Spillwords!
Thank you, Dagmara K., for publishing my poem “Early Spring Snow” on Spillwords! My Thoughts on the PoemIt never fails that snow falls shortly after the daffodils bloom and the birds are back, deceived by the weather that Spring has arrived. Snow can smother or buffer. The morning’s glistening mounds…
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A Sonnet to Tinnitus
Thank you, Michelle Ayon Navajas, for publishing my sonnet today on Hotel Masticadores House! As you may know, tinnitus is ringing in the ears. The screeching sounds are all around me every minute of the day and night, and when I’m trying to sleep, the volume and pitch rise as…
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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…
