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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, 2023's Best Books, on the site on Humanities Commons 3 days, 5 hours ago
All of these come to me through NetGalley, where you can read eARCS (electronic Advance Reading Copies) of forthcoming books in exchange for writing reviews of those books. This year I gave a 5/5 rating to 75 […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Last book reviews of the year: a Scottish haunting, early modern women writers, the Moon, and more, on the site on Humanities Commons 3 days, 5 hours ago
The Herbalist’s Secret by Annabelle Marx. 3/5
I liked this gothic story quite a lot. The house and the ghosts and Kitty’s story, a familiar but still tragic one of oppression and misogyny, are all handled well […] -
Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Book reviews: the bleak and the beautiful; Kelly Link's new novel; new Seanan McGuire, on the site on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days ago
The Ghost with a Knife at Her Throat by Kevin Hincker. 2/5
This novel has a great premise and a compelling plot, but the writing is so over done, and so full of unnecessary italics and Capitalized Things and […] -
Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Shakespeare, the Early Modern, and Period Song in the American Silent Cinema, on the site on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
My book chapter “Shakespeare, the Early Modern, and Period Song in the American Silent Cinema,” will be out in the spring of 2024 in the Routledge collection History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image and Media, […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Interview with Interstellar Flight Press, on the site on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
I was interviewed by Interstellar Flight Press Magazine about GRAB, my new chapbook of horror and dark fantasy poetry!
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, A reaction to Intelligence, on the site on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
I saw Gene Scheer and Jack Heggie’s new opera Intelligence at the Houston Grand Opera. I’ve been mulling over my own intelligence in writing about my reaction to it, but I want opera to change, and so I am writing […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Book reviews: a new take on Lady Macbeth, the return of Molly the maid, and more, on the site on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
Company by Shannon Sanders. 4/5
Company is a collection of stories connected by the members of one middle-class Black family in America. It’s about microaggressions and control issues, generational conflict, […] -
Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Happy book birthday to GRAB!, on the site on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
Grab, my collection of dark fantasy and horror poetry, is out today from Red Ogre Review! Sponsored by a grant from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, it contains werewolf drama, eldritch […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Book reviews: System Collapse, the new Naomi Alderman, and great graphic novels, on the site on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India by Rakesh Khanna; J. Furcifer Bhairav. 5/5
This is an excellent and fun guide to ghosts, monsters, and demons of India, complete with chatty definitions and stories, variant […] -
Kendra Leonard uploaded the file: Teaching Julia Perry's Homunculus C. F. to
Julia Perry Working Group on Humanities Commons 3 months agoThis is my book chapter on teaching, as the title says, Perry’s Homunculus C. F. with an emphasis on presenting it in the music theory classroom. It is from Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom, ed. Melisa Hoag, Routledge. (2022)
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Composer Julia Perry (1924-79) is often mentioned in discussions of Black…[Read more] -
Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Ye Gods! Protectress is in Kirkus again, on the site on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Protectress is featured again in Kirkus magazine, this time in a round-up of books about ancient gods! You can also access it here.
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Cinema’s First Nasty Women Compilation Soundtrack, Vol. 1, on the site on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Dana Reason, the co-lead with Terri Lyne Carrington in scoring the 99 films of Kino Lorber’s Cinema’s First Nasty Women collection, sent me the new album that’s come from the project, Cinema’s First Nasty Wom […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Me, talking about horses, self-discipline, writing, and more, on the site on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I did an interview with Leo Collins of Voyage for their Bold Journey Series. Read it all here!
As a bonus, here’s me as a horse kid (age about 8, riding a school horse named Bess who was the best ever) and a […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Book reviews: Emma Donoghue writes Anne LIster, on the site on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Inanna by Emily H. Wilson. 2/5
I understand what Wilson is trying to do here, to tell the story of Inanna and the gods and demi-gods of Mesopotamia, like Gilgamesh. But the characters mostly don’t have a lot of […] -
Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Poetry, aliens, and the new Jesmyn Ward novel, on the site on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
Pink Moon by Roshan James. 1/5
The concept sounded interesting but the poetry just isn’t good. It’s a trite and formulaic and boring.Just a Fika by Beck Erixson. 1/5
So, you’ve got a ghost grandma who’s […] -
Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Where am I? July-August 2023, on the site on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Where am I? I’m back home in Houston, and I have a lot going on! I’d love to see faces old and new at these events.
July 11
I’ll be on a panel sponsored by the Dramatist’s Guild called “Operatunity! Librettists […] -
Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Librettists in Conversation, on the site on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
On July 11 at 7 pm Central time, I’ll be talking with hosts Cerise Jacobs and Amy Punt and fellow librettists Sokunthary Svay, Omar Najmi, and Brandy Carie on a Dramatists’ Guild panel called Librettists in […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Interview with Music Journalism Insider, on the site on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Todd L. Burns of Music Journalism Insider interviewed me for his newsletter. We talked about my origins as a cellist, how I became a lyricist and librettist, my current scholarly research, and more.
Sign […]
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Sense of Self libretto for NMG2023, on the site on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Sense of Self libretto Download (PDF)
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Kendra Leonard wrote a new post, Sense of Self and Opera Elect at New Music Gathering 2023, on the site on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Opera Elect has been chosen to perform Sense of Self, one of my operas with composer Lisa Neher, at New Music Gathering 2023! Joining Portland pianist Stephanie Thompson, Jordan Bowman and Madelein Bowman of […]
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