Please check out my poem about shotputters and discus throwers on VERSE-VIRTUAL. (Much thanks to editor Jim Lewis.) www.verse-virtual.org/2025/Novembe...
At the Philadelphia Orchestra today with Anya Kress. Pieces by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and Jennifer Higdon (BGSU connection), Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducting. And this otherworldly rendition of a Finnish folk song by guest violinist Lisa Batiashvili… www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWW9...
I will check it out. Thanks.
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-...
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...
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/...
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...
As always, George Eliot out-Kants them all...(from Chapter 27, MIDDLEMARCH).
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...
Wow! Especially the 2nd stanza.
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...
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...
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)
Visit to Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw..
Trump fantasy
Kościół Mariacki, Kraków, Polska. (Altarpiece by Wit Stwosz)
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...
RIP Val Kilmer, forever Jim Morrison of the Doors. Perhaps the confusion is appropriate and necessary.... plumepoetry.com/not-the-way-...
Great, Mike!
Great reading/talk. Will certainly read.
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.
Not that it matters but I'm the barefoot bearded guy on the right.
Ugh, yes it is! All these years I've thought it was CR. Thanks.
Carl Rakosi (back left) at the National Poetry Festival in Allandale, Mi, 1973--along with Reznikoff, Oppen, and a whole bunch of other.
'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
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...
How do artists sustain themselves year after year? Two recent books ask a wide variety of people—dancers, writers, filmmakers, architects—why they keep creating.
Pleased to announce the immanent publication of my new poetry collection--FOXHOLES (Moonstone Press). Coming any day now.
