Tag: Book Review
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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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A Fantastic Review of BroKen Rengay: Unruly Poetry by Selma Martin
My gratitude to Selma Martin for her review of BroKen Rengay up on Goodreads. It begins … To grasp the elusive lightness of being, we need more buoyancy like you’ll find in this book. First, questions: what do you do when you’re living in the best of times, alongside the…
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Praise for Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry
Bro ken Rengay is a collaborative poetry collection by Barbara Leonhard, Melissa Lemay, and Nolcha Fox. Inspired by the rengay form-created by Garry Gay in 1992 as an alternative to renga and renku-this book follows the six-verse linked structure while playfully breaking its traditional rules. Originally, Barbara and Nolcha collaborated on…
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A Stunning Review of The Lost Book of Zeroth by Pete Mladinic
I’m grateful to Pete Mladinic for reviewing my latest satirical collection of poetry and flash fiction about the chaos created by soulless AI Robots. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic today. AI technology is used in almost all areas, such as science, medicine, business, art, literature, and home management. Although…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Heron Spirit by Ken Gierke
Ken Gierke’s new poetry collection, Heron Spirit, is a conversation with the natural world. The poems take us from playing in leaves to lines that paddle in unison with the waves of metaphors, the lines that stretch into the endless horizon of an endless river. Nature holds bold, tall titans, sentinel eagles,…
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Peter Mladinic’s Review of “The Lost Book of Zeroth” is up on the Journal Your Impossible Voice!
Thank you so much, Pete, for your generous and insightful review of The Lost Book of Zeroth (Alien Buddha Press, 2025). Here are Pete’s opening lines: The Lost Book of Zeroth is comic, tragic, and ultimately human. The irony is that the book’s first three sections are “peopled by robots:” Sophia,…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: The Weight of One Hummingbird Feather and Random Seed by Sharon SingingMoon
Sharon SingingMoon’s new poetry collection, The Weight of One Hummingbird Feather, is a tragic memoir of the loss of her son to drug addiction in early January 2023. These raw and honest poems reveal not just her son’s descent into addiction but also his healthy years of promise. Imagine a…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Files of Information on People Who Don’t Exist by Peter Mladinic
In Peter Mladinic’s poetry collection Files of Information on People Who Don’t Exist (BlazeVOX, October 9, 2024), the minutia of daily forgetting become memoirs set in free verse. With the precision of a reporter, Mladinic uncovers our deepest impulses, surrenders, and sins. A keen observer, he writes with such honesty, we…
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Sun Dog: A Leonhard Collaboration up on Collaborature
Collaborature published the following collaboration between me and my husband. I sometimes write poems to photos he takes on his river kayaking ventures or hikes. Check out the beautiful presentation on Collaborature! https://collaborature.blogspot.com/search?q=Sun+dog Sun Dog* The setting sun peers through clouds. A sun dog arches its back, stretching the light…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: One Petal at a Time by Joni Caggiano
April 5 was the anniversary of the publication of Joni Caggiano’s poetry collection One Petal at a Time (Prolific Pulse Press, 2024). Congratulations, Joni! The title of Joni Karen Caggiano’s powerful poetry collection, One Petal at a Time, makes me recall what I used to say as a child while…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 