Tag: Poetry
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Another Fun Poetry Collaboration with Yongbo Ma
Thank you, Yongbo Ma, for submitting our collaboration to the first issue of Poetry Appreciation in 2025. Published by Changjiang Literature & Art Press in December 2025, ISBN 978-7-5702-4302-0. I call Yongbo the World’s Poet Laureate because he translates many poets’ works. I’m certain they are all as grateful as I…
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Breaking News!
Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry made the Poetry 2025 Book List! Unfortunately, you have to scroll through a list to locate the book. https://www.clmp.org/news/poetry-of-2025/ And “There’s Never Enough of Me”, another Rengay poem by Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and me, has been published on LatinosUSA. Thank you, Nolcha, for publishing…
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“It’s All About Death, Really” up on The Chaos Section Poetry Project
My gratitude to Nick Allison, editor, for publishing my poem “It’s All About Death, Really” on The Chaos Section Poetry Project and in their anthology What We Hold Onto: Poems of Coping, Connection, and Carrying On. The anthology is co-edited with Rachel Armes-McLaughlin. You can read the anthology for free…
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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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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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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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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…
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