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“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…
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“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…
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“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…
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“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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: “My Pelvis Wants to be Elvis” by Nolcha Fox
Who hasn’t heard of Nolcha Fox? She’s one of the most prolific contemporary U.S. poets. Nolcha Fox’s poems have been curated in more print and online journals than I can count. She’s a nominee for 2023, 2024, and 2025 Best of The Net and nominee for 2023 and 2024 Pushcart…
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Published in an Albanian Anthology!
I have three poems in this anthology of poetry by 103 female poets all over the world. The poems have been translated into Albanian by Dr. Jeton Kelmendi. The anthology is available as an ebook. The English title of this anthology is Colors of Thoughts. Like I’ve said, little squirrel…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: “Encore: A Collection of Poetry” by Zaneta Varnado Johns
Zaneta Varnado Johns’ book, “Encore: A Collection of Poetry”, is a book for the soul of humanity. As I read the poems, I felt my heart open and expand. She begins in Part One with “Whispers and Romances”, which celebrates sensual love and the sense of love as it manifests…
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