Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver

  • No-Fee Submission Calls

    As many of you know, I edit for MasticadoresUSA and FEED THE HOLY. MasticadoresUSA MasticadoresUSA is always open for no-fee submissions. I’m seeking poetry, fiction, short memoirs, book reviews, and interviews. I also like to publish book promotions. As Co-Poetry Bookshelf Editor for LatinosUSA, I can republish poetry book promos, giving authors greater…

  • I Am Contentious: How I Bully Myself

    Yesterday I posted on the dangers of bullying others. But how do I bully myself? Practicing Loving Kindness has helped me realize I am my own worst enemy. A few years ago, by allowing negative thoughts to tangle in my mind, I became depressed. Everything felt dark and threatening. I…

  • Bullies Kill

    Although I never found her channel, I was moved by the loss of a beautiful wife and mother who was a compassionate and empathic young woman. Her name was Mikayla Raines. She rescued foxes, and her YouTube channel was highly successful. But bullies drove her over the edge, her husband…

  • “Payne Comes for Tea”

    Nolcha Fox and I wrote this poem together. Our collaborations turned into Too Much Fun To Be Legal (Garden of Neuro Publishing, 2024). This feels like a good time for some light-hearted words.Payne Comes for TeaUninvited again.Slaps my ailing knee.“How’s it goin’?Not up and about yet?How ‘bout a jog around…

  • “The Bittersweet”: A World Traveler

    My gratitude to Irma Kurti for publishing her translation of my poem “The Bittersweet” into Albanian for Gazeta Destinacione. Follow this link to see her translation. https://gazetadestinacioni.al/barbara-harris-leonhard-shba-perktheu-irma-kurti/ The BittersweetA leaf dances in midairwithout falling.What holds it—A tiny threadof a spider’s weaving?Am I suspendedby my dizzy, twirling? Uncertainty and fear?Or is…

  • “Instituto Terra” is up on Chewers by Masticadores!

    “Instituto Terra” is up on Chewers by Masticadores!

    Thank you, Editor Nolcha Fox, for publishing my poem! Here is the note about the poem, which first appeared on Silver Birch Press. Because of our environmental crisis, I wanted to give this poem more visibility. The poem was inspired by the story of a couple in Brazil who regrew…

  • “Ode to a Yard” up on Collaborature!

    “Ode to a Yard” up on Collaborature!

    Yongbo Ma an esteemed Chinese scholar and the most highly regarded poet in China, translated my poem “Ode to a Yard”, and our collaboration is up on Collaborature. Thank you so much, Editor, Melissa Lemay! Thank you for following this link to read the collaboration… https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/06/ode-to-yard-bl-imy.html

  • On Father’s Day 2025

    On Father’s Day 2025

    Sunday, June 15, was a quiet day. Because I wanted to find a biography written by some relatives about my paternal great grandmother, whom we called Sweet Grandma, I was rifling through papers and came upon letters from my father. One read so much like a poem that I had…

  • Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: “The Street” by John Yamrus

    Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: “The Street” by John Yamrus

    John Yamrus, a renowned master of neo-noir and minimalist poetry, has a book out with Anxiety Press. The Street is a poetic memoir presented in a conversational tone. In fact, Yamrus told me it’s best I read the book as though I’m speaking it. Because his stanzas put me right…

  • AI Robots Call Foul! Want Life Insurance!

    AI Robots Call Foul! Want Life Insurance!

    Do we abuse AI robots? If there is danger, who is sent to do the job? Not the biologicals, who may lose their lives trying to rescue fallen soldiers, construct Martian habitats, defend Earth from asteroids heading our way, and explore booby-trapped spaces. Like the incredible tomb of Emperor Qin…