Poet, fiction writer, translator (Polish). PAN TADEUSZ by Adam Mickiewicz on website: www.leonardkress.com Craniotomy Sestinas (2021) Poppy Seeds (2023) Foxholes (2025)https://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3m4kxqnjfu22aPlease check out my poem about shotputters and discus throwers on VERSE-VIRTUAL. (Much thanks to editor Jim Lewis.) https://www.verse-virtual.org/2025/November/kress-leonard-2025-november.asp?p=26&n=28&fbclid=IwY2xjawNy2FhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtxOGitnfabTGhFZBGRonsI1_TPlKEH9-xNv0zWUV6U7b_pA-l8uMySngLHS_aem_DMK8RmiFB6O08pucGSqJyA01 Nov 2025 12:14 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4kxqnjfu22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3m454tsgezs27At 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… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWW9q0GPjtw27 Oct 2025 00:08 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3m454tsgezs27https://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lz4emoaf322nPlease 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. https://poetsforscience.org/time-out-of-mind/18 Sep 2025 12:39 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz4emoaf322nhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lxpjlttjek2qPlease 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… https://www.minyanmag.com/leonardkress-issue16.html31 Aug 2025 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxpjlttjek2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lvdng4todc23Please check out my short story, "Rubies," in the new issue of Litro. Clearly, a quarter century living in the Midwest affects one's writing... https://www.litromagazine.com/usa/2025/06/rubies-fiction-short-story/01 Aug 2025 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvdng4todc23https://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3ltzgvy4vgs2sAlways important to commemorate Bastille Day—equally necessary to note “The Day After Bastille Day.” Please check out my poem published in Helix… https://helixmagazine.org/2022/03/16/the-day-after-bastille-day-leonard-kress/?amp&fbclid=IwY2xjawLjcOFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrSvqD34d3ATfCiaT91krR13OipO_RMc_hHrqogrDfFBK7nRc7kQ3KUPtXD2_aem_GI-ACP3CjikICUu14s7Tpw15 Jul 2025 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltzgvy4vgs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lt7ytfv7cs2zAs always, George Eliot out-Kants them all...(from Chapter 27, MIDDLEMARCH).05 Jul 2025 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt7ytfv7cs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lsvwe6hbts2iPlease check out my poem, “STRING BEAN MORITIFICATION” in the new issue of Stick Figure Poetry Quarterly. (You would be too.) https://stickfigurepoetry.com/issue-18/#string-kress01 Jul 2025 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsvwe6hbts2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lqpnvd6hl223Much 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.) https://www.versedaily.org/2025/orpheuslistenstoblackorpheus.shtml https://versedaily.org03 Jun 2025 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqpnvd6hl223https://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lpjiyv4of22aPlease 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. https://asitoughttobemagazine.com/leonard-kress-a-night-at-the-opera/19 May 2025 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjiyv4of22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3loegagg7dk24Kent 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...)04 May 2025 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3loegagg7dk24https://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lnmxfipwf22sBattle 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)25 Apr 2025 09:55 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnmxfipwf22shttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lnkvgstyhc2sVisit to Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw..24 Apr 2025 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnkvgstyhc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lnibcma63c2vTrump fantasy23 Apr 2025 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnibcma63c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lna7yvwsls25Kościół Mariacki, Kraków, Polska. (Altarpiece by Wit Stwosz)20 Apr 2025 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lna7yvwsls25https://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lmmmc4v6fk2sMy 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…. https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/2024/03/12/flash-fiction-by-leonard-kress/12 Apr 2025 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmmmc4v6fk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lluoe2whus2uRIP Val Kilmer, forever Jim Morrison of the Doors. Perhaps the confusion is appropriate and necessary.... https://plumepoetry.com/not-the-way-it-was/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJauQBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcAGNPI4cwgfnSX-O86yaJDN7nVF1kBj_5hfMIY8qJPoSJTmT77NQo-oCg_aem_br5sFpsB-72FOZZyWpPOqA03 Apr 2025 00:44 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lluoe2whus2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3llm5ft3qjk2xMy 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.30 Mar 2025 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3llm5ft3qjk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lhyh7tw7ak2qNot half-bad--this description of the Superbowl (via Robert Graves' I CLAUDIUS).12 Feb 2025 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhyh7tw7ak2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lhw55y2z3k2jMy 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...11 Feb 2025 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhw55y2z3k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lgvptflys22pPleased to announce the immanent publication of my new poetry collection--FOXHOLES (Moonstone Press). Coming any day now.29 Jan 2025 19:38 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgvptflys22phttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lgq7vmwmr22tFor International Holocaust Remembrance Day: This Way to the Gas Ladies and Gents („Proszę państwa do gazu”) by Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5doAUd4LHXKZmFzaHF3dnpRVXVXOTlBaWctWThydw/view?resourcekey=0-3dAHMNpVNkfITN-4625piA27 Jan 2025 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgq7vmwmr22thttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lgikf5upns23Please 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. https://poetrycatalog.com/swordfish-mounted-on-the-paneled-rec-room-wall-leonard-kress/24 Jan 2025 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgikf5upns23https://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lfi57p5ddc2qWas 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)11 Jan 2025 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfi57p5ddc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lez52zbxos2uI heard William Mathews read this poem in Ann Arbor in the late 90s. Hasn't diminished at all.... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/poem-of-the-day05 Jan 2025 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lez52zbxos2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3leu6nplb4k2mTeaching no more....03 Jan 2025 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3leu6nplb4k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3lec6qko7322dHappy 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….)27 Dec 2024 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3lec6qko7322dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lkress.bsky.social/post/3le5uiatjvk2sA perfect way to begin Hanukkah…25 Dec 2024 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:anwynspvu2it7lupp2sunqly/app.bsky.feed.post/3le5uiatjvk2s