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Virgil Thomson Fellowship

By Kendra Leonard Posted on March 12, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

I’m delighted and honored to be awarded the 2023 Virgil Thomson Fellowship by the Society for American Music for “Analyzing Rosa Rio’s Accompaniments for Silent Film,” which is a part of my larger book project titled Race and Gender in …

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Good memoir, dull memoir, and translations

By Kendra Leonard Posted on February 24, 2023 Posted in Book reviews

A History of the Island by Eugene Vodolazkin. 4/5 In preparation for this novel, I read the author’s previous epic work, Laurus. As some reviewers have already mentioned, this is a continuation of that novel, and the author’s storytelling style …

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March 4: Learn to write about music in your creative writing!

By Kendra Leonard Posted on February 20, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized

Writing About and With Music: An All-Genre Generative Workshop After reading a few poems about music, we’ll spend time listening to several different works and writing as we listen. INSTRUCTOR: Kendra Preston Leonard, Ph.D. TIME: Saturday, March 4, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 …

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Women Scream

By Kendra Leonard Posted on February 20, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized

I’m honored to have my poem “Driving Away From the Mountains” included in Mother of the Earth, a poetry anthology published by Woman Scream, an initiative of UN Women: Generation Equality, which works “in 12 critical areas of concern: poverty, …

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Poetry from Ukraine, memoir, and more

By Kendra Leonard Posted on February 9, 2023 Posted in Book reviews

The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill by Rowenna Miller.3/5 You know, from the very first pages, what the bargains are going to do, and who’s going to have to pay for them. So you spend the first 60% of the …

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Fairies and wishes and spirits, oh my

By Kendra Leonard Posted on February 8, 2023 Posted in Book reviews

Without Children by Peggy O’Donnell Heffington. 4/5 This is a well-researched and interesting read about the many reasons people–particularly ciswomen and some transmen–do not have children–economic, physical, because of climate change, more. As a woman who is childfree by choice, …

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Writing Workshops in March

By Kendra Leonard Posted on January 30, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized

I’m teaching two workshops for Writespace Houston in March on Zoom. Come join me! Writing About and With Music Saturday, March 4, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. CST on Zoom Ekphrasis (eck-FRAY-ses) is writing about a piece of art as a literary …

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Protectress in Kirkus again!

By Kendra Leonard Posted on January 6, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized

Kirkus is featuring Protectress in its Jan 1, 2023 issue! (On the same page as Stephen King!) Order your copy here.

Climate fiction, poetry, and more–from 2022

By Kendra Leonard Posted on January 5, 2023 Posted in Book reviews

Apparently I missed posting a number of NetGalley reviews written in 2021 for books being published in 2022. Apologies! The Gravity of Existence by Christina Sng. 5/5 An absolutely brilliant collection of tiny poems, each on a world or person …

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Now out: Woodlands

By Kendra Leonard Posted on January 4, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized

I’m delighted to have three poems–“She Calls It a Fairy Tree,” “Replenish,” and “Ghost Jam”–in Woodlands, a new poetry anthology featuring poems from 49 writers on forests, the woods, the mysteries of nature, and myth, edited by the superb d. …

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