Books
‘“What will your seeing make?” Kendrick asks in her opening poem.
Hers has made these poems of witness and of healing, and we, her readers, are all the luckier for them.” — Pauletta Hansel on And Luckier
Poetry
And Luckier
The poems in this book sooth us, teach us and nudge us forward toward our best, our kindest selves.
Second Opinion
The poems of Leatha Kendrick’s Second Opinion are warm in their gathering of memory, painful in their confrontation of mortality.
Heart Cake
“Meditations on the soul’s journey, the poems of Heart Cake offer rich, original, and sustaining vision.”
Science in Your Own Backyard
Poems chronicling Leatha’s breast cancer experience. The “science” of the title moves from early wonder at nature through diagnosis, mastectomy, and chemotherapy.
Almanac of the Invisible
Rooted in farms, long gone or going away, these poems attend to stars and seasons, seeding and harvest.
Anthologies
Troublesome Rising
Troublesome Rising A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky includes Leatha’s essay “Invisible, Essential.” Purchase.
Women Speak
Women Speak, the Women of Appalachia Project anthology series. Leatha has poems in Volumes 8, 9, & 10. Purchase.
Crossing Troublesome
What Comes Down to Us
What Comes Down to Us: 25 Contemporary Kentucky Poets. Purchase.
Listen Here
Listen Here:
Women Writing in Appalachia. Purchase.
A Kentucky Christmas
A Kentucky Christmas.
Purchase.
The Southern Poetry Anthology
TheSouthern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia. Purchase.
The Kentucky Anthology
The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State. Purchase.
The Voice of Breast Cancer
The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics. Purchase.
I to I
I to I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists. Purchase.
When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks, KaBooM Writers Collective