Fwd: Planet Poet's new PODCAST with poet Barbara Leff all the way from San Francisco!

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From: Sharon Israel <sharo...@74908830.mailchimpapp.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Subject: Planet Poet's new PODCAST with poet Barbara Leff all the way from San Francisco!
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Planet Poet's new PODCAST with poet Barbara Leff - all the way from San Francisco!

View this email in your browser Cover Art - Donald Jackson Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired February 10th, 2026) featuring poet Barbara Leff.  Barbara, joining the show from San Francisco, discusses and reads from her books AND GOD SAID…A Brief History of Creation, and Undertow. Planet Poet’s Poet-At-Large, Pamela Manché Pearce, also appears on the show. Listen on YouTube Music Spotify podcasts Apple Podcasts  Sharonisraelpoet.com (click on Planet Poet) 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,           sharonisraelpoet.com           pamelampearce.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  argo LaPierre (she/her) is a writer and freelance literary editor. With multi-genre work published in The Ex-Puritan, CV2, Room, PRISM, and Arc, among others, she has won national awards for her poetry, fiction, and editing. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Ajar is her second poetry collection. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Visit: www.margolapierreeditor.com   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.