I am so happy to share the latest issue of The Orchards Poetry Journal with you–so eager to do that that I have not yet read all the poems myself yet. This is a summer pleasure I look forward to, perhaps in the hammock out in the garden. For now, I am just honored to find my Petrarchan sonnet, dedicated to Virginia Woolf, titled “Fresnel Lens Dream,” in what I know is good company.

To read this issue for free, click HERE. As you look over the contents, I would love to know if you find particular favorites in these pages.

Wishing you a happy summer, and a few dreamy, beachy moments tucked in here and there,

LESLIE