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Posts by Barbara Leonhard

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Trapped by Poseidon in a Chevy Impala at Spillwords.com Spillwords.com presents: Trapped by Poseidon in a Chevy Impala, poetry by Barbara Harris Leonhard, author of the Amazon best-selling...

Trending on Spillwords. I transformed an experience I had as a teenager with a male predator into myth and dedicated the sonnet to the survivors of sexual violence.

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Poetry That Breaks the Rules—and Works Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry by Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and Barbara Leonhard(Prolific Pulse Press, 2025) Melissa Lemay, who readers will recognize from Record of Dissent, is back with a new coll…

Review of Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry, a sharp, playful collaboration by Melissa Lemay, Nolcha Fox, and @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social, published by #ProlificPulsePress. It’s inventive, funny, and full of life. Like jazz in verse. thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/2025/10/28/b... #BrokenRengay #Poems

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It’s so nice to have support! bsky.app/profile/ljen...

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Thanks, my friend! You’re the best!

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Amazing Anthology on Dreams Available Now! I’m delighted to say I have three poems in this new anthology edited by Robbie Cheadle and Colleen M. Chesebro. The theme this year is dreams. My poems follow. The link to order the anthology…

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More Children’s Poems Up on Little Chews!! Photo by Gleive Marcio Rodrigues de Souza on Pexels.com Thank you, Nolcha Fox, for publishing my poems for the African school children in Kenya. These poems were read as part of the Poetry Reading …

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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 …

Please read about a good cause and submission opportunity.
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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 proce…

A poem I wrote was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can read the poem here: extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog/2025/10/26/v...

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Poems emerge just as I want them to be — Nancy Bevilaqua Version 1.0.0 Poems emerge just as I want them to be—Nancy Bevilaqua Juan Re Crivello: Do you think poetry is back in fashion? Nancy Bevilaqua: I’m not sure if poetry has ever really been in …

Poet & editor Barbara Leonhard (@barbaraleonhard.bsky.social ) has published a LOT of my poems (bless her heart) on her literary journal Feed the Holy. She's also editor of MasticadoresUSA, on which this interview (of ME?!) & another poem were recently published. ✨🥂🍉 #poetry #poets #literaryjournals

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Featuring «Mystical Greenwood» by Andrew McDowell Fae Corps Publishing, 2022 Book Description Dermot is a fifteen-year-old boy in the kingdom of Denú. He has always longed for more in life. Then everything changes after he sees a gryphon and cross…

Featuring "Mystical Greenwood" by Andrew McDowell latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/f... @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social

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Collaborature is open for submissions and offers a monthly contest! Editor Melissa Lemay

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Soul of Our Soul: Palestine in Poetry & Prose Edited by Sharon Feltman I have a poem in this new anthology out, Soul of Our Soul: Palestine in Poetry & Prose, which is raising money to aid the children of Palestine. The poetry and prose in…

I have a poem in a new anthology raising money to aid the maimed and disabled children of Palestine.

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Help us get to #1. We keep our shirts on! 🤣🥳🤭

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Thank you so much!

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Published Today on American Poet Photo by Matthias Zomer on Pexels.com I have three poems up on American Poet. “Senescence,” “Winter Prayers,” and “The Girl with the Pearl Earring.” Thank you so much, editor Faiyaj Islam Fahim! Yo…

I have three poems up on American Poet!

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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 …

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Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry

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A cool video about our new poetry book!

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For those who like unruly poems!

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Roberta Writes – Book reviews: The Lost Book of Zeroth and Endangered Species #bookreviews #readingcommunity The Lost Book of Zeroth by Barbara Harris Leonhard Picture caption: Cover of The Lost Book of Zeroth by Barbara Harris Leonhard What Amazon says The Lost Book of Zeroth by Barbara Harris Leonh…

Robbie Cheadle write a great review of my satirical sci-fi collection of poems and stories about AI robots failing at being human- The Lost book of Azeroth. Check out Roberta Writes, her website. roberta-writes.com/2025/09/08/r... #RobbieCheadle #AlienBuddhaPress

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No worries! We can connect sometime when it is best for you. No need to reply to everything. 🌺

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Happy Belated birthday 🥳🎉🌺‼️

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“Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry” A Best Seller! Cover Illustration by Lesley Scoble Melissa Lemay, Nolcha Fox, and I collaborated on a collection of Rengay poems that is being published by Prolific Pulse Press this week. It hit the best seller l…

My new book with Nolcha Fox and Melissa Lemay was just published. It’s #2 in new releases on Amazon. More details and the order link…. extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog/2025/09/07/b...

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Hope all is well!

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My pleasure, my friend!

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“…di sogni e di chimere” by Nancy Bevilaqua Photo by Kaique Rocha on Pexels.com (For Alessandro) How to regain the room lit orange redthe shifting shapes of shadow birds    magiclamp that spun them onto walls around hisbed    our holy hour t…

And yet ANOTHER poem (apparently I've written quite a few in my lifetime!) published today on MaticadoresUSA, courtesy of the nicest editor I've ever dealt with, @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social .
This is another one about my son, when he was a baby, & our bedtime ritual.
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Poetry Book Review: “The Lost Book of Zeroth” by Barbara Harris Leonhard The Lost Book of Zeroth by Barbara Harris Leonhard (2025). Available on Amazon. This collection of masterfully-penned sci fi poetry opened a whole new world of quirkiness for me. Bravely original, …

Thank you, Dawn Pisturino, for your great review of m book The Lost Book of Zeroth! @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Buddha Press

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