Barbara Leonhard
@barbaraleonhard.bsky.social
Author of Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir;Too Much Fun To Be Legal; The Lost Book of Zeroth. Editor Masticadores USA. Editor FEED THE HOLY. My blog: https://www.extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog
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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 …
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November 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Please read about a good cause and submission opportunity.
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A poem I wrote was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can read the poem here: extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog/2025/10/26/v...
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…
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October 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A poem I wrote was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can read the poem here: extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog/2025/10/26/v...
Reposted by Barbara Leonhard
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
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 …
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September 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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
Reposted by Barbara Leonhard
Featuring "Mystical Greenwood" by Andrew McDowell latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/f... @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social
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…
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September 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Featuring "Mystical Greenwood" by Andrew McDowell latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/f... @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social
Collaborature is open for submissions and offers a monthly contest! Editor Melissa Lemay
October 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Collaborature is open for submissions and offers a monthly contest! Editor Melissa Lemay
I have a poem in a new anthology raising money to aid the maimed and disabled children of Palestine.
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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…
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September 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I have a poem in a new anthology raising money to aid the maimed and disabled children of Palestine.
extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog/2025/09/23/s...
extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog/2025/09/23/s...
Help us get to #1. We keep our shirts on! 🤣🥳🤭
September 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Help us get to #1. We keep our shirts on! 🤣🥳🤭
Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry
September 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry
A cool video about our new poetry book!
September 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A cool video about our new poetry book!
For those who like unruly poems!
September 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
For those who like unruly poems!
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
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…
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September 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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
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...
“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…
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September 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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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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.
#poetry #literaryjournal #poems
This is another one about my son, when he was a baby, & our bedtime ritual.
#poetry #literaryjournal #poems
“…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…
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August 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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.
#poetry #literaryjournal #poems
This is another one about my son, when he was a baby, & our bedtime ritual.
#poetry #literaryjournal #poems
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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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, …
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September 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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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I’m delighted to publish @Andrea Damic on MasticadoresUSA!
Heartfelt thanks to Masticadores USA Editor @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social Barbara Leonhard, for the publication of my poem ‘The Way Nightmares Are Formed’. This means a great deal to me.
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#poetry #poems #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
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#poetry #poems #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
“The Way Nightmares Are Formed” by Andrea Damic
Photo by SHVETS production on Pexels.com the way your life changes foreverlike a timeless pendulumwavering from one extreme to another the way you get used to sleepless nights,unwashed hair and lac…
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August 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I’m delighted to publish @Andrea Damic on MasticadoresUSA!
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YES! Another poem of mine was published today on MasticadoresUSA.com . Thanks again, @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social !
#Poetry #poems #literaryjournals #PublishedPoems
#Poetry #poems #literaryjournals #PublishedPoems
“Milk (Dream Poem #31) by Nancy Bevilaqua
Photo by u0414u043cu0438u0442u0440u0438u0439 u0417u0430u0439u0446u0435u0432 on Pexels.com Blues became his eyes toward his mother.So much white and sanctuary eggshellopen. Light was all we’d have f…
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July 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
YES! Another poem of mine was published today on MasticadoresUSA.com . Thanks again, @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social !
#Poetry #poems #literaryjournals #PublishedPoems
#Poetry #poems #literaryjournals #PublishedPoems
Yongbo Ma translated one of my poems into Chinese and a recitation video was produced. Such fun!
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“Love Blitz” Music Video
Photo by cole yap on Pexels.com The esteemed Chinese poet and scholar Yongbo Ma translated my poem “Love Blitz” into Chinese and emailed me a video of the recitation of the poem. The English versio…
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July 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Yongbo Ma translated one of my poems into Chinese and a recitation video was produced. Such fun!
extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog/2025/07/29/l...
extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog/2025/07/29/l...
I have three poems in this new anthology! One poem is a duplex poem, a new form created by Jericho Brown.
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extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog/2025/07/10/b...
Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Social Possibilities (Poetic Voices of Hope)
The anthology Social Possibilities: Poetic Voices of Hope (Prolific Pulse Press, 2025) is available now in Amazon. I haven’t read it yet, but I’m delighted to share the Amazon blurbs and a poem I h…
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July 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I have three poems in this new anthology! One poem is a duplex poem, a new form created by Jericho Brown.
extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog/2025/07/10/b...
extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog/2025/07/10/b...
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Heartfelt thanks to Masticadores USA Editor @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social Barbara Leonhard, for the publication of my poem ‘Lines in the Sand’. This means a great deal to me.
masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/l...
#poetry #poems #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
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#poetry #poems #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
“Lines in the Sand” by Andrea Damic
Photo by Iurii Laimin on Pexels.com I think about the lines in the sand, madeeach time my parents took me to the beach.I think about the waves crashing on the shore andmy lines in the sand vanishin…
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July 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Heartfelt thanks to Masticadores USA Editor @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social Barbara Leonhard, for the publication of my poem ‘Lines in the Sand’. This means a great deal to me.
masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/l...
#poetry #poems #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/l...
#poetry #poems #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
Reposted by Barbara Leonhard
Another poem of mine was published on the MasticadoresUSA literary site, edited by @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social. I wrote it when my son was still in high school in FL; times were rough, but he was just discovering his musical talents.
#poetry, #poems, #musicians, #singing, #perfectpitch, #parenting
#poetry, #poems, #musicians, #singing, #perfectpitch, #parenting
“Pitch” by Nancy Bevilaqua
Photo by Patru00edcia Nicoloso on Pexels.com My son still young a singer and surprised when told that he hasperfect pitch: he’d thought we all do but if that were true I saidthere’d be no need to …
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June 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Another poem of mine was published on the MasticadoresUSA literary site, edited by @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social. I wrote it when my son was still in high school in FL; times were rough, but he was just discovering his musical talents.
#poetry, #poems, #musicians, #singing, #perfectpitch, #parenting
#poetry, #poems, #musicians, #singing, #perfectpitch, #parenting
