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“Payne” Keeps Showing Up for Tea!
“Payne Comes for Tea” is up on Chewers by Masticadores. Thank you so much, Nolcha Fox, for this collaboration. As you said, you and I are a payne! 🤣 We could not have written our poems without Payne hanging around so much. “Payne Comes for Tea” is one of the…
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A Tiny Poem up on Little Chews
Thank you, Editor Nolcha Fox, for publishing “Orange Sun” on Little Chews. I wrote “Orange Sun” during an online workshop offered by Cheltenham Poetry Festival. Orange SunHalf-consumed by smoky skiesIt slips slowly into the billowing cloudsA life half-spentA life that wants to sleep forever.©Barbara Leonhard
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“Bringing Home the Bacon” by the Rengay Gals
Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and I are back at it! We hope you enjoy our new Rengay and then click on the purchase link to the Kindle book for Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry (Prolific Pulse Press, 2025). Paperback format is also available. Bringing Home the BaconPlease buy our bookIt’ll…
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Children’s Poems Up on Little Chews!
I’m delighted Nolcha Fox published my children’s poems for the Poetry Reading Project at a school for orphans in Kenya. I shared the first poem in my recent post on my blog. Please follow this link to see the entire post on Little Chews, which Nolcha Fox edits on LatinosUSA.…
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“You Beautiful Equation” up on Chewers by Masticadores
“You Beautiful Equation” was published today on Chewers by Masticadores. I am grateful to editor Nolcha Fox for providing poets and writers a beautiful home for their work. The poem is so short that you can read it in its entirety on the link below. However, give Chewers some traffic…
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A Good Cause!
I discovered a school for orphans in Kenya, founded and directed by Hillary Mainga. He invited me to submit a short poem for one of the children to read on Saturday for their weekly Poetry Reading Project, which helps the children to learn English. These taped readings can found on…
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Five Haiku about Tranquility up on FEED THE HOLY
The haiku I featured on FEED THE HOLY today first appeared in Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku (edited by Gabriela Marie Milton). You can read the haiku by following this link. While you’re there, take a look at some other posts. I’m thrilled that FEED THE HOLY has attracted so…
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Suberb Review by Nicholas of “Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry”
I’m grateful to Nick Allison for reviewing Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry. His website, The Chaos Section Poetry Project, is linked below. If you haven’t visited it yet, you might want to explore the site. https://thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/ Here is part of the review. Follow the link below to finish reading it.…
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Very Grateful for a Pushcart Nomination!
I am grateful to editor Sharon SingingMoon Feltman for nominating my poem “The Wind Listens,” which is in the anthology Soul of Our Soul: Palestine in Poetry & Prose 2025. The proceeds of the anthology are being donated to aid the wounded and maimed children of Palestine who need prosthetics.…
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Nicole Sara Reviews Bro ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry
Thank you so much, Nicole Sara. for your insightful review of Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry. Everyone, follow the link below to read her review. Also, you can read other reviews on her blog and subscribe. The Kindle version of Bro Ken Rengay is on sale for $.99. The paperback…