Donate

Leonard Kress

Leonard Kress has published poetry and fiction in Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, Crab Orchard Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, etc. His recent collections are The Orpheus Complex, Living in the Candy Store, and Braids & Other Sestinas. He teaches philosophy, religion, and creative writing at Owens College in Ohio.

By Leonard Kress

Sestina With a Line From Major Jackson’s Reverse Voyager

by Leonard Kress

I never met your “Mrs. Pearl, a grandmother, a domestic, thirty years boarding SEPTA early mornings”— though I grew up in a suburb at the end of the line, where weekdays old women from North Philly walked down the block, trudging back up, weary and burned out, to catch the spasmodic, sluggish “A-Local” to Broad

Spring 2016

Blue Grass (with Homage to Louis Zukofsky)

by Leonard Kress

The whole neighbourhood aghast—to find the tour

bus of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys

Fall/Winter 2013

Browse More Content

SUPPORT 
DIVERSE VOICES
IN LITERATURE

If you enjoy our magazine’s print and online issues and believe in our mission of promoting diverse voices, please consider donating so we can continue to publish such relevant and distinctive work here at Solstice.

Make a donation