Press - Rodney Terich Leonard

Press

Press

Mentions & Praise

Grand Forks Herald, “Speakin’ the truth / Easin’ your pain” –

In which an Air Force poet has been writing seriously for two years

Alexander City The Outlook, “Poet comes home to Coosa” –

The poet as a young man

Village Voice, “One Bedroom Garden-Apartment in 1900S Brownstone” – An interview & a stroll

New York Times, “Renaissance Redux Uptown: A Song at a Time” – Profile with party for Nina Simone

New York Times, “Good Company: Party, and Hope She Will Come” – Profile, with lilac wine

White Hot Magazine, “An artist’s blend: a pinch of wit, a scoop of oral brilliance, and the essence of visual assemblies…” About a journey to a true artists’ salon

Huffington Post, “Raoul Abdul, Rodney Leonard and a Great House of New York, in Harlem!” – About a handsome party

New York Times, “A Home That Is Sometimes a Salon” – Upon awaking, being transported

New York Times, “Hobnobbing from the Ground Floor Up” –A rakish collar at a port of call

Amsterdam News, “Noted Poet Elizabeth Alexander Returns to Harlem” – Surrounded with warmth & sway

Columbia School of the Arts Alumni Spotlight – Ask yourself, “What does my thirst for advancing as a writer taste like?”

Southern Review of Books – “The Best Southern Books of February 2021” – An extraordinary poetic universe is discovered

Axios -“Endangered jazz history faces greater risk with the pandemic” – The poet’s insights in the conversation

The Outlook – “Alabama native nods to ‘rich canvas’ of Coosa County childhood in debut poetry anthology – In which the poet speaks of the Sweetgum tree and the people of the place

Vox Populi – “Angele Ellis: from Four Way Books / Leonard, Torres, and Cohen” – In which the reviewer discovers how the poet’s language “measures closeness…”

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