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...

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-...

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.

'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.

For International Holocaust Remembrance Day: This Way to the Gas Ladies and Gents („Proszę państwa do gazu”) by Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) drive.google.com/file/d/0B5do...

Please check out my poem “Swordfish Mounted on the Paneled Rec-Room Wall.” Thanks to the editors at Poetry Catalog. These things may or my not have taken place in the suburbs of my adolescence. poetrycatalog.com/swordfish-mo...

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)

I heard William Mathews read this poem in Ann Arbor in the late 90s. Hasn't diminished at all.... www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/poem-o...

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….)

A perfect way to begin Hanukkah…

www.divagations-advancedleisure.com/literaryjour... Please check out my two most recent sestinas in this latest issue of Divigations. Read all about the Babylonian Talmud and an invisible girl that appears at your window…. Thanks to editor Troy Jollimore…(See pg 34-37)

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.)

Seems it’s the time of year where folks are announcing their work nominated for Pushcart Prizes. I’ll join in with this, “Neighborhood Port” nominated by FLASHFLOOD JOURNAL. flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2024/06/neig...

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)

Who like to have a little Kant or Adorno with their morning coffee.

My yearly Thanksgiving Meditation.... americanliteraryreview.com/2018/12/05/l...

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....

Acrylic on paper, 22 x 30”

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….

New here..... To introduce myself. natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/an-army-of-f...