Leonard Kress
@lkress.bsky.social
Poet, fiction writer, translator (Polish). PAN TADEUSZ by Adam Mickiewicz on website: www.leonardkress.com
Craniotomy Sestinas (2021) Poppy Seeds (2023) Foxholes (2025)
Craniotomy Sestinas (2021) Poppy Seeds (2023) Foxholes (2025)
As always, George Eliot out-Kants them all...(from Chapter 27, MIDDLEMARCH).
July 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
As always, George Eliot out-Kants them all...(from Chapter 27, MIDDLEMARCH).
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...)
May 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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...)
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)
April 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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)
Visit to Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw..
April 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Visit to Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw..
Kościół Mariacki, Kraków, Polska. (Altarpiece by Wit Stwosz)
April 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Kościół Mariacki, Kraków, Polska. (Altarpiece by Wit Stwosz)
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.
March 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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.
Carl Rakosi (back left) at the National Poetry Festival in Allandale, Mi, 1973--along with Reznikoff, Oppen, and a whole bunch of other.
February 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Carl Rakosi (back left) at the National Poetry Festival in Allandale, Mi, 1973--along with Reznikoff, Oppen, and a whole bunch of other.
Not half-bad--this description of the Superbowl (via Robert Graves' I CLAUDIUS).
February 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Not half-bad--this description of the Superbowl (via Robert Graves' I CLAUDIUS).
My Story, the first page at least, "DISPLACED PERSONS" in this Ohio Writers' Association collection, Should This Book Be Banned? Given the current state of affairs, the title of the story would get it banned. It purports to be about living in Kensington (Philly) when I lived there...
February 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My Story, the first page at least, "DISPLACED PERSONS" in this Ohio Writers' Association collection, Should This Book Be Banned? Given the current state of affairs, the title of the story would get it banned. It purports to be about living in Kensington (Philly) when I lived there...
Pleased to announce the immanent publication of my new poetry collection--FOXHOLES (Moonstone Press). Coming any day now.
January 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Pleased to announce the immanent publication of my new poetry collection--FOXHOLES (Moonstone Press). Coming any day now.
Was it ever really like this? Was the Village ever really like this? Is this something AI-generated? (from THE LAST AVANT-GARDE: The Making of the New York School of Poets by David Lehman)
January 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Was it ever really like this? Was the Village ever really like this? Is this something AI-generated? (from THE LAST AVANT-GARDE: The Making of the New York School of Poets by David Lehman)
Teaching no more....
January 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Teaching no more....
Happy birthday to poet Charles Olson (b. Dec 27, 1910)—the one singular poet who lured me into the world of poetry. (Projective Verse, Human Universe, The Maximus Poems, Black Mountain….)
December 27, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Happy birthday to poet Charles Olson (b. Dec 27, 1910)—the one singular poet who lured me into the world of poetry. (Projective Verse, Human Universe, The Maximus Poems, Black Mountain….)
A perfect way to begin Hanukkah…
December 25, 2024 at 9:07 PM
A perfect way to begin Hanukkah…
The late Middle Ages—when competing Popes traveled with huge retinues…and everyone had to eat. (From this near-Homeric catalog in Greenblatt’s THE SWERVE.)
December 16, 2024 at 5:51 PM
The late Middle Ages—when competing Popes traveled with huge retinues…and everyone had to eat. (From this near-Homeric catalog in Greenblatt’s THE SWERVE.)
The day after Thanksgiving feasting--13th century account of St. Francis of Assisi. Very contemporary and social media-like in this description. (from Eric Auerbach, MIMESIS)
November 30, 2024 at 4:15 PM
The day after Thanksgiving feasting--13th century account of St. Francis of Assisi. Very contemporary and social media-like in this description. (from Eric Auerbach, MIMESIS)
Don't cry over spilled soup--"the greasy liquid." (No one does this better than Melville in BILLY BUDD.)
November 26, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Don't cry over spilled soup--"the greasy liquid." (No one does this better than Melville in BILLY BUDD.)
Here's one way of looking at growing old....
November 23, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Here's one way of looking at growing old....
The poet’s notebook!!! From THE ROAD TO XANADU, John Livingston Lowes’ examination of Samuel Tayler Coleridge’ voluminous notebooks as they relate to “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Coleridge was open to all influences and stole from everyone and everywhere….
November 12, 2024 at 7:27 PM
The poet’s notebook!!! From THE ROAD TO XANADU, John Livingston Lowes’ examination of Samuel Tayler Coleridge’ voluminous notebooks as they relate to “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Coleridge was open to all influences and stole from everyone and everywhere….