To purchase from Amazon, please click here. The Best Buddhist Writing 2011 features Leza’s story on adopting her Japanese son. The anthology is a thought-provoking mix of the most notable and insightful Buddhism-inspired writing published in the last year. The Best Buddhist Writing 2011 (Shambhala Publishers) includes: • His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s manifesto on tolerance • Dzogchen Ponlop on …
ONE-LEGGED KING PIGEON
Leza’s Poem One-Legged King Pigeon appears in Visiting Dr. Williams: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of William Carlos Williams. Edited by Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro (University of Iowa Press). A foreword by poet and Williams biographer Paul Mariani places this revolutionary physician-poet in understandable context, an introduction, by editors Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro provides further understanding …
WRITE FOR TOHOKU
Leza’s Essays about Cross-Cultural living in Japan appear in Write for Tohoku, an anthology supporting earthquake and tsunami relief efforts, published in Spring, 2011. To purchase, please click here.
POEMS OF AWAKENING
Leza’s Poem “Waiting” appears in Poems of Awakening, edited by Betsey Small. In this anthology, poets speak about experiences of living joyfully in the moment and sensing themselves as part of what Walt Whitman calls “a vast similitude” which “interlocks all.” Includes both ancient and modern works by Kabir, Hafiz, Shih-Te, Anna Swir, Walt Whitman, e.e. cummings, Wendell Berry, H.D., Mary …
THE POETRY OF YOGA
Leza’s poem, In the Corner of the Body, a Thief Sits Waiting, is the first poem featured in The Poetry of Yoga, a revolutionary anthology of yoga-related poetry edited by HawaH. Contributors include Shiva Rea, Rod Stryker, John Friend, Sharon Gannon, Seane Corn, Tias Little, Sianna Sherman and many more. To purchase, please click here.
SUNRISE FROM BLUE THUNDER
Several of Leza’s poems from Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections appear in Sunrise from Blue Thunder, an anthology from Pirene’s Fountain published in response to the Japan earthquake and tsunami. Proceeds from the sale of this book will go toward ongoing relief efforts in Japan. To purchase, please click here.
YOGA WITH YOU
Leza writes on the 2-month aftermath of the Japan earthquake and the growing activist movement in The Huffington Post Essay on the marriage of yoga and poetry in Poetry Nippon Yoga With You, a charity book to aid Japan, has just been released for the i-phone. I was honored to participate in this project. Sharon Gannon, John Friend and many international …