Reverberations from Fukushima: 50 Japanese Poets Speak Out
(Inkwater Press, 2014)
“Here, finally reaching our shore, the first wave of poems out of Fukushima: disaster in the first-person, no longer paraphrased, managed, or supposed. These are the voices that bring the experience closer than journalism ever could, that ask us to plant ourselves in the path of contamination, fear, betrayal. Our losses become all too real…”
~ Kathleen Flenniken, author of Plume
Available at Inkwater Books, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
The Turquoise Bee and Other Love Poems
(Finishing Line Press, 2014)
“It’s refreshing to see a woman writing so freely and openly about love and about the physical body during romances. The Turquoise Bee is full of flowers and night-dancing, of time and loss and being enriched by experience. I cherish these poems. Stenson’s eye and concern of the intimate other is to be admired.”
~ Carl Adamshick, 2010 Winner of the Walt Whitman Award and 2012 Winner of the Oregon Book Award
Available at Finishing Line Press
Everywhere I Find Myself
(Turning Point Books, 2017)
“Eternity can be heard in the stir of the breeze, in the vineyards, the whisper of prayer,” the poet writes in Everywhere I Find Myself. The poems explore love, memory and deep loss with equal verve. With an artist’s sharp eye for detail and a philosophical world view Leah Stenson is a savvy traveler. Her wry wit, compassionate heart and spirit infuse this vivid, engaging collection.”
~ Marilyn Stablein, author of Climate of Extremes, Splitting Hard Ground, and Sleeping in Caves
Available at Turning Point Books, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest
(Ooligan Press, 2013)
“Tart, sharp, unexpected, funny, sidelong, blunt, and gentle, with passages and line of startling power and pleasure. Personally, I would buy this in a trice for the sheer quality.”
~ Brian Doyle, author of Mink River
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Journals and Magazines
Cirque
Clackamas Weekly
Cloudbank
Colere
Eunoia Review
Ghost Town Poetry
Gorge Literary Journal
Illya’s Honey
Kosmos
Lalitamba
Just Now
Multnomah Art Center Postbox
Northwest Women’s Journal
Oregon Literary Review
Portland Alliance
Red Poppy Review
Red River Review
River Poets Journal
San Diego Review
Sacred Cow
Sunset Liminal
The Oregonian
The Oregonian SW Weekly
Thresholds
Tiger’s Eye
Unique Ink
Verseweavers
VoiceCatcher
Vox Poetica
Word Salad
Poetry Anthologies
Adanna’s Love Poetry Anthology
Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest
Classified
Fault Lines
Just Now: 20 New Portland Poets
Heiwa wo towa in Kokoro ni Kizamu: 305 Shijin Shu (Engraving Peace in Our Hearts: An Anthology of 305 Poets)
Home Address: Poems Celebrating Lake Oswego’s Centennial
Motionless from the Iron Bridge: A Northwest Anthology of Bridge Poems
No Box Can Hold: A Modern Study of Identity and Self-discovery
Plein Air Anthologies (2013, 2014 and 2015) | Columbia Center for the Arts
Raising Our Voices: Anthology of Oregon Poets Against the War
Song of Ourselves