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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · 20d

I will check it out. Thanks.

Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · 22d

Please check out my poem "Time Out of Mind" on the Kent State University. "Poets for Science" site.
Fitting that a poem about higher math would be a sestina.
poetsforscience.org/time-out-of-...

Time Out of Mind - Poets for Science

Everything you think you know about time is wrong. You imagine it’s just another dimension, no different from the other three. And space (as Minkowski argued a century ago) is in love with time, fused...

poetsforscience.org

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Aug 31

Please check out my new poem (as well as the other fine work) in the new issue of MINYAN. (Special thanks to editor Liz Marlow.)
It should be easy enough,
just choose a psalm, any psalm,
say #19 for starters…
www.minyanmag.com/leonardkress...

How Poets Pray by Leonard Kress | MINYAN

How Poets Pray by Leonard Kress from Issue Sixteen

www.minyanmag.com

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Aug 1

Please check out my short story, "Rubies," in the new issue of Litro. Clearly, a quarter century living in the Midwest affects one's writing...
www.litromagazine.com/usa/2025/06/...

Rubies - Litro Magazine USA

A ruby earring, a mall, a buried past. “Rubies” is a tender, aching story about abortion, motherhood, and Midwestern memory.

www.litromagazine.com

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Jul 15

Always important to commemorate Bastille Day—equally necessary to note “The Day After Bastille Day.”
Please check out my poem published in Helix…
helixmagazine.org/2022/03/16/t...

The Day After Bastille Day || Leonard Kress

It’s quiet here, where the river broadens, by the dropped drawbridge and the distant eight-girl crews, coasting to the finish line, forming a bar graph that could represent favored activities (list…

helixmagazine.org

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Jul 5

As always, George Eliot out-Kants them all...(from Chapter 27, MIDDLEMARCH).

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Jul 1

Please check out my poem, “STRING BEAN MORITIFICATION” in the new issue of Stick Figure Poetry Quarterly. (You would be too.)
stickfigurepoetry.com/issue-18/#st...

Issue #18

Lead Pipe Replacement Project by James Croal Jackson C Street by Azure Brandi Woods by Pulkita Anand Thoughts About Golf While Reading William Blake by Charlie Brice Post-midlife Crisis by Er…

stickfigurepoetry.com

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Jun 19

Wow! Especially the 2nd stanza.

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Jun 3

Much thanks to JP Laughing Bear for including my poem, “Orpheus Listens to Black Orpheus” on his website, versedaily.org. And I urge you to subscribe to his substack for a new poem daily. (This is from my new collection FOXHOLES.)
www.versedaily.org/2025/orpheus...

Welcome to Verse Daily!

Verse Daily, a quality web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.

versedaily.org

Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · May 19

Please check out my poem, "A Night at the Opera" in the new issue of AIOTB (As It Ought To Be). Fine poems in this issue, edited by Chase Dimock.
asitoughttobemagazine.com/leonard-kres...

Leonard Kress: “A Night at the Opera”

A Night at the Opera(Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen)We have such great seats at the operain the first balcony and the first thingmy wife asks–to switch places becausethe woman’s perf…

asitoughttobemagazine.com

Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · May 4

Kent State shootings--45 years ago, May 5, 1970. (Photo from the Philadelphia Bulletin of the protest at Temple U on North Broad Steet. After breaking into the National Guard Armory and before a National Guard tank broke down in the middle of the street. Yes, that me--all fired up--on the right...)

Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Apr 25

Battle of Grunwald--(1410) between the villages of Grunwald and Tannenberg n northeastern Poland that marked a major Polish-Lithuanian victory over the Knights of the Teutonic Order. (Defeating the Nazis early)

Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Apr 24

Visit to Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw..

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Apr 23

Trump fantasy

Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Apr 20

Kościół Mariacki, Kraków, Polska. (Altarpiece by Wit Stwosz)

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Apr 12

My very unorthodox way of marking Passover—in lieu of a Seder. These two flashes—and featuring Elijah, the invisible, invited, longed for dinner guest and in this case fully embodied….
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2024/03/12/f...

Flash Fiction by Leonard Kress

The synagogue of my youth wandered throughout the city, from the basement of the Methodist church on the Manayunk hills to the East Falls nursing home…

anotherchicagomagazine.net

Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Apr 3

RIP Val Kilmer, forever Jim Morrison of the Doors. Perhaps the confusion is appropriate and necessary.... plumepoetry.com/not-the-way-...

Not the Way it Was - Plume

Not the Way It Was Today I overheard a conversation about the 1969 incident when Jim Morrison exposed himself onstage at the Coconut Grove in Miami and for a good half-hour I was sure I had been at th...

plumepoetry.com

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Apr 2

Great, Mike!

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Apr 2

Great reading/talk. Will certainly read.

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Mar 30

My new poetry collection has finally arrived—FOXHOLES. If anyone out there would like a review copy or simply a copy to read, please message me with your mailing address. Here’s a sample poem from the book.

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Feb 26

Not that it matters but I'm the barefoot bearded guy on the right.

Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Feb 26

Ugh, yes it is! All these years I've thought it was CR. Thanks.

Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Feb 25

Carl Rakosi (back left) at the National Poetry Festival in Allandale, Mi, 1973--along with Reznikoff, Oppen, and a whole bunch of other.

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Feb 21

'It’s the one I’m looking at this morning: the boy bleeding / into the snow painted over with slabs of cheese and meat; / the boy being led away from parents who appear / to offer his sister in his place painted over as a swan'

'The Feast of the Holy Innocents' by Maurice Riordan

'The Feast of the Holy Innocents' by Maurice Riordan | Original poem | The TLS

28 December 2023 On the good rug with the Bible open I’m learning to read. The words are hard, I turn to the pictures: Belshazzar’s Feast, the Golden Calf, Holofernes, Moses Smashing the Tablets,…

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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · Feb 12

Not half-bad--this description of the Superbowl (via Robert Graves' I CLAUDIUS).

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