Author Archives: Leslie Schultz

My Chosen Birthday–June 21, 2023

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Sometimes Life really is a bowl of cherries!

It was an enchanted day here yesterday, with time in the garden, many communications of the best kind, dinner with special friends, and, walking home with Tim, the sight of Venus and the Crescent Moon floating in a golden post-sunset sky.

Thank you, all my dear family and friends, who created a day for me that was a cascade of kind wishes and beautiful surprises. You will be hearing from me individually, but today I wanted to send a heartfelt message of gratitude to you all.

This year, the longest day was also the sweetness.

BLUE UNICORN Has Published Its 46th Issue #2 (Spring 2023) and Includes My Poem, “Conception”

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Blue Unicorn always holds delights and surprises for me. With this issue, my delight started on the cover, with the photograph by Helen Schoenhals Hart taken at Black Lake, Michigan. Artistic, perfect for the journal, and it made me laugh out loud! I can’t recall when another cover of a literary journal has elicited that multivalent response from me!

Among the poems between the covers are a host of intriguing translations — including English versions of work by Antonio Macchado (Spanish), Guilliame Apollinaire (French), Ch’ Oui or Uisun (Korean) — as well as work by contemporary poets who write in English. Of these, I was drawn to many, particularly “Pink Moon” (a deft and multifacted evocation of the Supermoon we all experienced in April of 2020) by Dion O’Reilly of Sorquel, California, and “Who Cooks for You?” (an existential riff on hearing the cries of nearby barred owls) by Gary Metheny of Greensboro, North Carolina. I am so glad that my poem, “Conception,” is in their company.