Fwd: Planet Poet's new BROADCAST with Poet Barbara Leff!

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From: Sharon Israel <sharo...@74908830.mailchimpapp.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Subject: Planet Poet's new BROADCAST with Poet Barbara Leff!
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Planet Poet's new BROADCAST with Poet Barbara Leff!

View this email in your browser Cover Art: Donald Jackson LISTEN TUESDAY, 2/10/26, at 1PM EDT on WIOX Community Radio Catskills at 91.3 FM (for streaming click on www.WIOXradio.org) to Planet Poet-Words in Space with host Sharon Israel, featuring poet Barbara Leff, who will join us from San Francisco. Barbara will discuss and read from  two of her books AND GOD SAID…A Brief History of Creation, and Undertow. Planet Poet’s intrepid Poet-At-Large, Pamela Manché Pearce, will also appear on the show   Born and raised in New York, Barbara Leff discovered poetry at the age of 12 and has explored the genre ever since.  Her work has appeared in various journals, including Fourteen Hills, Fault Line and Ibbetson Street. Her first collection, AND GOD SAID . . . A Brief History of Creation, finalist for the DA VINCI prize for the book cover, is based on the Book of Genesis and published by Broadstone Books.  Her second Collection, LUCK, a collaboration with visual artist, David Maxim is devoted to forms and her most recent collection, UNDERTOW was published in 2024, also by Broadstone Books.  She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Arlene Singer, and their dog, Baxter. Visit: barbaraleffpoet.com   Praise for AND GOD SAID . . . A Brief History of Creation  …AND GOD SAID... is a brilliant retelling of The Book of Genesis, one of the foundational texts of Western culture. The biases, gaps and silences of the original are given voice and texture by Leff's humane and compelling imagination which brings a fresh and passionate angle of vision to these familiar stories, transforming in the process not only our understanding of our religious past but also of the contemporary life which is in part a product of that past. This is a wonderful and exhilarating book --- Alan Shapiro, Author of ten poetry collections including Tantalus in Love and Old War Poems     Praise for UNDERTOW   ….These deftly crafted poems treat the quotidian, the metaphysical, and the magical- “as if I could grab a handful of stars from the sky and toss them on the tiles at your feet.” Sharply observed, heartrending and celebratory by turns, UNDERTOW conducts us through a lifetime of landscapes its fascination with orientation in shifting memory and place becoming our own.--Susan Cobin, Author, What You Choose    Yours in Radio, Sharon Planet Poet – Words in Space: A WIOX Community Radio Production Planet Poet theme music and editing by Robert Cucinotta Sharon Israel hosts Planet Poet - Words In Space, airs bi-weekly on WIOX radio Tuesdays at 1pm EST. 91.3 FM. For streaming click on www.WIOXradio.org. or http://tinyurl.com/wioxcatskills.   Visit Sharon's website Sharonisraelpoet.com for more archived shows. https://linktr.ee/sharonisraelpoet Copyright © 2026 Poet, All rights reserved. You subscribed to receive Planet Poet episodes and Sharon Israel. Our mailing address is: Poet 53965 State Highway 30; Roxbury, NY 12474 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.