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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Advance praise for New Wave Opera's Marie Curie Learns to Swim, on the site on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Charles Rose, writing for Oregon ArtsWatch:
At “Herstory,” the selections from Marie Curie had a sense of humor, singing a text suffused with chemistry jargon and stress over funding and grant app […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Talking Marie Curie in Portland, on the site on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Composer Jessica Rudman and I will be in conversation with Jessica Murphy Moo (editor of Portland magazine), Tamar More (Physics), and Jeff Gauthier, (Philosophy & Gender and Women Sexuality Studies) prior to […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Book reviews: finding the stolen children of Argentina's Dirty War, a feminist history of Russia, and more, on the site on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Takehiko Fukunaga; Yoshie Hotta; Shin’ichiro Nakamura; trans. by Jeffrey Angles. 5/5
If you’re a Mothra fan, this book is for you. Read the original stories of Mothra and its […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Book reviews: indigenous lit, seances, bats, and the best book on cemeteries I've ever read, on the site on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey by Kathleen Kaufman. 5/5
I enjoyed this lovely and original imagining of spiritualism in Scotland, London, and America in the late 19th century. […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Book reviews: new books from Moniquill Blackgoose, Cherie Priest, and Alma Katsu, plus poetry by Peppe and Heaney, on the site on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
Reviews 7-18-25
America’s Most Gothic by Leanna Renee Hieber; Andrea Janes. 5/5
This is another winner from these authors! Delving into histories from all around the world, Hieber and Janes focus on the g […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, At the infusion center, on the site on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
This week I was officially discharged by my hematologist after several years in his care. I get various kinds of anemia—I have to give myself B12 injections twice a month, and was in really bad straits re: iron a […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Girls Love Horses, or Cassandra's Little Pony, on the site on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
If you follow me anywhere, you may know that I have a couple of pieces featuring Cassandra and the Trojan Horse–one is “Cassandra at the Bonfire,” a poem, and the other is Girls Love Horses, which was written […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Dear Opera America and Opera Memphis, on the site on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
To say I am disappointed in the all-men composers line-up at the Opera Conference’s New Works Showcase is an understatement. Here is what I wrote to OA and Opera Memphis:
I am a member of Opera America and […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Book Reviews: Toni Morrison as editor; fun Buffy fanfic; a terrific Bacchae retelling, and spec poetry, on the site on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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The TL;DR is 5/5 to these titles:
Speculative Fiction (Sci-fi, fantasy, horror)
Slayers of Old by Jim C. […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, A glowing review of My Skin: a Selkie's Tale in Musical Opinion, on the site on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
Paul Conway, writing for Musical Opinion (December 2024):
“The performers concluded their recital with the first performance of My skin: A Selkies Tale, for soprano and cello by Angela Elizabeth S […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Five Questions with Finnian Burnett, on the site on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The amazing advocate and flash fic writer Finnian Burnett asked me five questions about libretto-writing, being an activist artist, my academic work, and more. Read it all here!
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, My books, scraped, on the site on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
Today at The Atlantic, you can put in your name and discover which of your books, articles, reviews, etc., are in the LibGen database–a database of pirated books—used to train Meta’s AI.
In addition to t […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Mini libretto-writing workshop, on the site on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
On March 12 at 7 pm Eastern, I’ll be teaching a FREE 90-minute mini-workshop on libretto writing with Guerilla Opera over Zoom! The workshop is open for anyone and offers a taste of how our Libretto Labs work. […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Wonderful Whistberry, a WWII story like you've never read before, Mary Morris, Huda Fahmy, Stephen Graham Jones, and more, on the site on Humanities Commons 7 months ago
The Final Voyage of Avery Mothmere by Helen Whistberry. 5/5
Whistberry is one of my favorite authors. They are able to blend beauty and danger and horror and whimsey and magic together in a vast and dazzling […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Live table-read of Protectress Act 2, on the site on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week ago
Opera Contempo, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, will hold a live table-read of Act 2 of Protectress on April 19, 2025 at the Marmelade Library (280 West 500 North, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103) at 2 pm! Almost all […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Negotiating Trauma in New Art Song, on the site on Humanities Commons 7 months, 4 weeks ago
This material was presented as a paper at the Cascade Song Festival, 24 January 2025, and is part of a larger project on vocal music and trauma. Please contact me before quoting or citing any material […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, More about MY SKIN, on the site on Humanities Commons 8 months ago
I contributed to a blog post on Illuminate Women’s Music on my new piece MY SKIN with composer Angela Elizabeth Slater. Read it here!
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Book reviews: Laila Lalami, Charlaine Harris, Joyce Chng, and many more, on the site on Humanities Commons 8 months ago
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall. 3/5
In an America where New York is flooding and coastal cities are lost by the day, a group tries to survive first in a museum of natural history, then out on the […] -
Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, PROTECTRESS on sale at Smashwords!, on the site on Commons 9 months ago
You can get the epub edition of PROTECTRESS at Smashwords for just $1.49 from now until January 1, 2025. Visit https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1181759 and apply the coupon!
PROTECTRESS, a novella in […]
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Kendra Leonard's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week ago
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