Poetry Box 2025 Casey Robb’s poetry collection Morning Glory Moon: A Weaving of Free Verse and Forms is a masterful work that includes sonnets, villanelles, ekphrastic poems, pantoums, blank verse,…

Robert Anasch – Unsplash.com Slack When you died, I let loose of the rope binding me to you.  Weathered, brittle love. The weight of a harness pulled off after a long sigh— But why? Haven Aft…

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

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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, …

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…

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…

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…

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…

JoJo Napping My husband, Dierik, and I have rescued a number of cats. Our most recent darlings, three males most likely ditched in the park across the street by college students graduating, familie…

Dad supervised our use of Sparklers, Poppers,Snappers. Outside on the sidewalk.Rockets and Twinkling Stars, only for my big brotherto fire off.Dad warned us of the dangers. Fingers blown off.Eyes t…

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 …

Jasper and Me Over the years I’ve loved many pets, including cats, dogs, birds, and chameleons. Even urban raccoons and deer! I’m certain that I am not alone. Let’s share our memories.  Mastic…

Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels.com Although I never found her channel, I was moved by the loss of a beautiful wife and mother who was a compassionate and empathic young woman. Her name was M…

Photo by Eduardo Gonzu00e1lez on Pexels.com Nolcha Fox and I wrote this poem together. Our collaborations turned into Too Much Fun To Be Legal (Garden of Neuro Publishing, 2024). This feels like a …

Photo by u5f81u5b87 u90d1 on Pexels.com Do we abuse AI robots? If there is danger, who is sent to do the job? Not the biologicals, who may lose their lives trying to rescue fallen soldiers, constru…

John Yamrus, a renowned master of neo-noir and minimalist poetry, has a book out with Anxiety Press. The Street is a poetic memoir presented in a conversational tone. In fact, Yamrus told me it’s b…

Who hasn’t heard of Nolcha Fox? She’s one of the most prolific contemporary U.S. poets. Nolcha Fox’s poems have been curated in more print and online journals than I can count. She’s a nominee for …

Zaneta Varnado Johns’ book, “Encore: A Collection of Poetry”, is a book for the soul of humanity. As I read the poems, I felt my heart open and expand. She begins in Part One with “Whispers and Rom…

Photo by Courtney Stephens on Pexels.com In The Lost Book of Zeroth, AI Robots Little Sophia (Little Spark) and Barbie compete over the attention for the human they share, Eliza. Little Sophia is E…

A Squirrel’s Front Teeth Never Stop Growing My mother foraged for meals for nine daily. She hunted for quilt patterns and party dresses for teen girls. She gathered seashells to glue to our gift baske...

Tina Turner and Cher were the best of friends for nearly fifty years. Picture: Getty It’s been a couple of years since my left knee replacement. A healer once told me that I needed to properly…

Poetry and Memoir

Image | Pexels SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (Edited on October 30, 2024) MasticadoresUSA accepts poetry, reviews, interviews, short fiction, memoirs, book promotions, and art pieces. I accept various…

Photo by David Dibert on Pexels.com Box TurtleWhen the trees were young and the sun high, we had a small garden, lush with tomatoes we shared with a box turtle that would chomp on the fallen fruit.…

Thank you so much, Pete, for your generous and insightful review of The Lost Book of Zeroth (Alien Buddha Press, 2025). Here are Pete’s opening lines: The Lost Book of Zeroth is comic, tragic,…

Sharon SingingMoon’s new poetry collection, The Weight of One Hummingbird Feather, is a tragic memoir of the loss of her son to drug addiction in early January 2023. These raw and honest poem…