Richard Skipper on The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show

 Richard Skipper's on Interview Show this week.  He sounds great, and he looks like a dream because he's a wonderful entertainer that celebrates life, music, and "Hello Dolly." We talk about making connections with people and inclusion.  Richard's performing in New York City on Dec. 27 at the GreatRoom 42.

Richard Skipper on The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show

I'm thrilled that Richard.Skipper will be joining my #YouTube #podcast, The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview show, broadcasting starting 6 pm ET/3 pm #PalmSprings time/11 pm UK time on Tuesday, December 3, and the two became friends. She encouraged him to work on creating his "Hello Dolly" show.

I discovered Richard in 2023 from a friend Princess Wow, who still leads a podcast on #Facebook. Richard used to run a podcast on YouTube. He interviewed two of my artists (Elliott Murphy and Sharon Katz). All of us were blown away by how well he prepared for their interviews.

Enjoy this interview. We talk about preparation, his work as a Carol Channing imitator, inclusion, and--of course-- Dolly. here's a lot I've learned from him; you will too!

RichardSkipper.com
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Jaclyn Bradley on The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show Talking abo...

My interview with Jaclyn Bradley on leadership and education for the Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview show premieres on YouTube this Tuesday evening at 6:00 pm ET/ 3 pm LA time / and Wednesday morning at midnight in Amsterdam.

Let’s Be Animals (Naturally, Instinctively!)

Let’s be Animals
and deal with bullies
instinctively
Let’s be inspiration
with our imaginations
naturally

Dream of bliss like big cats
Our bodies’ blessed thin or fat
cuddling and slinking
even if you’re snoring
If we get disrupted,
a little growl gets us respect

Let’s be Animals
and deal with bullies
instinctively
Let’s be inspiration
with our imaginations
naturally

Go Reach up like giraffes!
You know about going high
someone’s low let us sigh
Let’s hope they realize
We’re in a place to herald
ways we can see the whole world

Let’s be Animals
and deal with bullies
instinctively
Let’s be inspiration
with our imaginations
naturally

Even fast Impalas
their nirvana together
Staying very close
running across those dirt roads.
Living true like fresh veggies
Aware of their own beings!

Let’s be Animals
and deal with bullies
instinctively
Let’s be inspiration
with our imaginations
naturally

Let’s laugh like hyenas
Listen hard, they’re not crying
knowing each other.
Protect, watch one another
Every noise makes them unique
You know, let’s laugh together.

Let’s be Animals
and deal with bullies
instinctively
Let’s be inspiration
with our imaginations
naturally

We fly like the parrots
Letting us know they’re starlets
They make great messes
They teach us to say Stop! Enough
‘Cause they tell it like it is
Let’s speak up when it gets rough

Let’s be Animals
and deal with bullies
instinctively
Let’s be inspiration
with our imaginations
naturally

 

 

Bronx Historical Society Presents the Kindness Session, a Poetry Writing Workshop

Bronx Historical Society is presenting "The Kindness Session," a poetry workshop on recognizing the difference between kindness and cruelty to channel that in our writing on November 18 at 6 PM till approximately 7:45. The Poetry Workshop takes place at the Poe Visitors Center, 2640 Grand Concourse, in the Bronx. Subways near the Visitors Center are the 4, B, and D train at the Kingsbridge stop.  Buses to the Center are Bx9, Bx22, Bx28, Bx38, and BxM4 (Express bus). The Poe Visitors Center is up the Hill from the Fordham Metro North train stop.

Led by area poets Elisabeth von Uhl and Anne Leighton, the Kindness Session will include sharing works from classic and contemporary including Edgar Allen Poe, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gaye, Maya Angelou, as well as selected poems from attendees.

Once the attendees discuss poems, they’ll be encouraged to think of incidents where they recognize kindness from life experiences, friends and acquaintances, and how it affected their lives. From there, writers will be encouraged to create a first draft of poetry. Writers will read their poems, and be encouraged to revise a first draft by the first week of December.  We’ll have a Zoom get-together with feedback from each other. By Christmas we’ll have created the first part of an online anthology on blogspot, which poets will study, and make “final” corrections. The anthology will go live in 2025. Over the next few years, we’ll be adding more poems to the anthology from other workshops.

Elisabeth von Uhl earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been published in Lunch Ticket, The Cortland Review, SHIFT, cream city Review, The Watershed Review, and other journals and anthologies. She won a 2021 "Bronx Recognizes Its Own" Award, Her chapbook Ocean Sea, and was published by Finishing Line Press. She’s won scholarships and fellowships to Vermont College's Postgraduate Writing Conference, Prague Summer Writer's Seminar, and Greenwich Village Writing workshop. Visit www.elisabethvonuhl.com.

Anne Leighton appears on the Grammy-nominated album, Healthy Food for Thought: Good Enough to Eat, (Audio & Video Labs) reading her poem “Feed Your Parents Well.” She’s contributed to The Indie Collaborative, The Literary Parrot, Elephant Journal. Her poetry book The Leighton Explosion made enough of a profit to use her earnings to record an original song, “Got My Eye on You, Santa,” which found her a publishing deal with Sheer Music South Africa/Downtown Music, USA.  Visit workinggalrockandroll.blogspot.com.

For more information, please reach out to Elisabeth and/or Anne at e.vonuhl@gmail.com and LeightonMedia@aol.com. 

BCHS Home bronxhistoricalsociety.org

 

 

The New Normal By Anne Leighton

 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

-"1984" by George Orwell, 1949

There’s bad weird and good weird. Some bad weird folks have complained about me for a range of issues, including an obsession I have of making things happen. I’m a music publicist and love promoting some of the less popular recording artists. Traditional poets have put me down for feeling comfortable with rock-oriented and hip hop poets as well as off-the-wall writers from Dr. Seuss to Walt Whitman. I’ve believed in mending fences with people that are bullies. I like to dance at record release parties, even though some of my friends in the music community that’s unprofessional.  Through the years I’ve heard “abnormal” and synonyms used to describe me.

Recently I discovered large scale societal backing to boldly declare that “I’m normal, especially for me.” This includes having insight to set goals and solve challenges to make my part of the world a better place. 

Some of my skills fit needs for the Kamala Harris – Tim Walz campaign. The online get-togethers have been blowing my mind because some of the speakers share personal stories about ways they learned to make the world a nicer place.

I had a hard time in the Bronx trying to find leaders that care about me. Even females in my borough’s Democratic Party support bullying, and, actually, put down people asking for help.  I remember a female crossing guard that refused to help me, at age 60, cross the street. When I was a kid, there was a phrase, “Help the old lady cross the street!” I had to wait for a civilian to come by to ask her to hold my hand to get to the other side of a four-lane street.

Weird. Huh?

Novelist Min Jin Lee (“Free Food for Millionaires,” “Pachinko”), who went to Bronx High School of Science, choked up as she told us at an online Women for Harris National Organizing meeting, "I was raised to believe that love conquers fear, that forgiveness is possible and that every person is my sister and brother, and we are sent to heal a broken world."

The Kamala Harris online community includes people who were confounded—for years--by mean behavior.  The speakers helped us strengthen our self-realizations that it’s always been “them (the people doing weird things)” not us. They instructed us to be of service not to be power hungry for the win: “Welcome our voters.” and “How do we talk to them? Listen. What do they care about?”  

The discussion about people’s “weird behavior” resonated with me.  There are people that I love that hurt those that are helping them; unfriendly actions make them –ultimately- hinder their own development.         

Harris and Walz attribute “weird” to people that want to look down on others, and run their lives or condemn them for wanting help for themselves or their families. It’s astonishing the amount of people that don’t want healing.  

I want to feel better; understanding that it’s “weird” behavior to put me down for speaking up for myself is melting half my trauma. Maybe more.  Now my tears are calming, grateful, and full of wonder.           

Kamala stated “We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us. They are an essential source of our strengths.” That’s motivation for a better America, and should be the normal way of life for all of us.    

20^th Century Indian Philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”  

After Trump was elected in 2016, I worked hard to mend fences with people that had bullied me. I began speaking up louder to community politicians, and have continued this work.  If a person behaving “weird” to others was in a minority in a group I’m associated with, I turned to support groups for advice and comfort. Some responded with an encouraging phone call or email. Some didn’t. Each encounter with a potential supporter or detractor offered revelations that I use in new encounters in the weird and normal realms of my journeys.   

When I was in the fourth grade, our principal spoke about bullying on our school’s morning announcements program. I hope teachers can ask their students questions like, “Do you find if you use your energy in a mean way that it ultimately hurts you?”  Like frowning, it takes more energy to deliberately create problems for others. People have to make efforts to look for fault with others doing good things, which ends up destroying relationships. Plus, it wastes time when we could be improving our lives and doing positive things like cleaning cat litter….

In the writing work I do, I think using my talents to be the change I want to see is done by recognizing negativity when I express it and when it’s pushed at me, and seeing what I can do to turn it into a positive action. Now I let people know, “If you don't want me to call you ‘weird,’ stop being weird.”

Let’s create normal, and focus on the importance for kind behavior, while showing gratitude for it.

I feel healed, finally understanding that I only thought I wasn’t as good a person as my abusers.  Now I know I love this healing message that most of the time I’ve been normal.

  

 

You Feel Like We Do

My cats come to me

Come alive Kamala, Doug,

Elle and Joey

 

They do not have cats

the future first family

but we can have them

 

“Woof!” Wagged his tail, “hi!”

The Dogs and Doug Come Alive,

“We are still best friends!”

 

Ellie loves to dance

When I do my aerobics

She taps as I pass,

 

“Come by me, mommy”

Paws alive like my hands

I pause we both pet

 

 When Joey gets pets

his conscience prevents anger

and runs before bites

 

Joey knows what he wants

balancing his sanity

pleasing he and me.

 

The other side now

is mocking us fur lovers.

Who’s drama-making?

 

Kamala and Doug

who don’t have cats so we can

we can come alive.

-2024

The Anne LeightonInclusion Interview Show with Joe Deninzon of Stratosph...

My interview with Joe Deninzon of Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius and Kansas Fame premieres on the Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show, seen on YouTube on Saturday, August 31, at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT / and Sunday morning at 1 AM Amsterdam Time.

Invite to Poets for Harris Walz Online Get Together Sunday, September 1

Poets for Harris Walz are inviting the world to attend an online reading of poems inspired by Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz on Sunday, Sept. 1, 7-9 pm ET/ 4-6 pm PT/ midnight–2 am in the UK.

Poets for Harris Walz is the brainchild of Bronx friends Dona Elena Hatcher, Tina Jackson, Rhonda Lyles, and Anne Leighton. All four have had a range of relationships from friends that were unkind to others with what’s become known in healing circles as “weird behavior” (mean people).    

To RSVP for the event, fill out your information and submit at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdeuupz0tH9UhfQ18xGtY_3EPUKYpgWiv#/registration .

We hope to know by Thursday, August 28, who will be our special guest readers. Our organizers are supportive, observant and passionate poets, who will also be reading. 

Please advise us if you’d like to be part of the open mic.

Dona Elena Hatcher is the owner of Take Flight Talent Workshops. She is the author of the poetry book, “Word Dances Poems on Pointe.” https://store.bookbaby.com/profile/WordDancesPoemsonPointe  Email: dramadona1@yahoo.com.

Tina Jackson  will be releasing her long-awaited poetry book, "Scars From An Addict" soon.  Her most recent book, “Love Don’t Hit” is a novel about a woman who is physically, mentally, and verbally abused by her man.   www.instagram.com/tinajackson7858/  Email: jacksontina578@gmail.com

Anne Leighton’s poetry book “The Leighton Explosion” is published by Soul Asylum Books, Canada.  She’s working on The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show. workinggalrockandroll.blogspot.com.  Email: LeightonMedia@aol.com and Anne@AnneLeighton.com.

Rhonda Lyles is an Author, Entrepreneur, Mother, Grandmother, and Inspirational/Motivational Speaker.  Since publishing her first book, “My Thoughts” in April of 2015, she written 13 more books—most recently  “Loved Despite My Scars.” Email: lylesrhonda@yahoo.com

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Invite to Submit to Poets for Harris Walz Online Get Together by August 23

The Reading Takes Place Online Sunday, September 1

Poets for Harris Walz are inviting poets inspired by the candidates of Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz to join our online reading event. Poets for Harris Walz takes place on Sunday, Sept. 1, 7-9 pm ET/ 4-6 pm PT/ midnight–2 am in the UK.

Poets for Harris Walz is the brainchild of Bronx friends Dona Elena Hatcher, Tina Jackson, Rhonda Lyles, and Anne Leighton. All four have had a range of relationships from friends that were unkind to others with what’s become known in healing circles as “weird behavior” (mean people). We know there are others that have come out with poetry that can help move us all forward.

Twelve poets will be selected to read their poetry within a seven-minute performance time.  They will be chosen from submissions based on the relevance to our topic by the four curators of this event.   

All submission and contact information listed below:

*Poems should be attached as a word docx and in the body of one email including all contact info. 

*Poems should be single spaced and 12-point font, and titled. 

*Include a one or two sentence bio and recent career highlights.

*Deadline for submission is August 23 midnight ET/9 pm PT/ 5 AM 24 of August UK Time.

Curator Emails for Submissions: Dona Elena Hatcher dramadona1@yahoo.com, Tina Louise Jackson: jacksontina578@gmail.com, Anne Leighton: LeightonMedia@aol.com and Anne@AnneLeighton.com, Rhonda Lyles: lylesrhonda@yahoo.com

Poets own their writing and biographies, and acknowledge we will be posting their performances on YouTube, Facebook, and Linkedin. The video might be shared by others around the world.

If this event goes well, we’ll do more online events.

Dona Elena Hatcher is the owner of Take Flight Talent Workshops. She is the author of the poetry book, “Word Dances Poems on Pointe.” https://store.bookbaby.com/profile/WordDancesPoemsonPointe  Email: dramadona1@yahoo.com.

Tina Jackson  will be releasing her long-awaited poetry book, "Scars From An Addict" soon.  Her most recent book, “Love Don’t Hit” is a novel about a woman who is physically, mentally, and verbally abused by her man.   www.instagram.com/tinajackson7858/  Email: jacksontina578@gmail.com

Anne Leighton’s poetry book “The Leighton Explosion” is published by Soul Asylum Books, Canada.  She’s working on The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show. WorkingGalRockandRoll.blogspot.com.  Email: LeightonMedia@aol.com and Anne@AnneLeighton.com.

Rhonda Lyles is an Author, Entrepreneur, Mother, Grandmother, and Inspirational/Motivational Speaker.  Since publishing her first book, “My Thoughts” in April of 2015, she written 13 more books—most recently  “Loved Despite My Scars.” Email: lylesrhonda@yahoo.com

 

Newsletter 16 The Anne Leighton Inclusion

Poetry newsletter August 2024  

Since my last newsletter in 2022, I’ve journeyed from the depths of sadness for delusional love that never was! This trip help me learn—by observing and categorizing misguided hate—the actions from people that look down on you--from where ever I am, not them. 

As a noun, Hate is a manifestation of people’s actions and thoughts. As a verb, Hate is action.

Another manifestation is our writing.

I’m on a Love Conquers All path to create an infrastructure that includes The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show and time to write.  

The Main hub of my writing work is my poetry website-- workinggalrockandroll.blogspot.com. The latest is a celebration of my Mom’s 100^th birthday which I finished writing for her Feb. 18 birthday, two days later at Art-in-the-Basin. I posted “Happy 100th Birthday, Mom (Dedicated to Halin Pryves Leighton)” on Sunday because of Kamala Harris. (She had some healing energy on this journey, classifying deliberately mean behavior as “weird,” but not in a creative sense manifested by artists. The poem salutes some of my ancestry including roots from India….  The last verse blew my mind--it was about my cats and not having children.

Also here at workinggalrockandroll.blogspot.com is a link to my first interview for the Leighton Inclusion. The third entry is with Tina Jackson, a former neighbor from the Bronx. Over the past ten years we’ve egged each other away from abuse. She released her first novel, "Love Don't Hit," and has been promoting herself in ways I need to learn! Now she’s working on a poetry book.

I’m creating poetry workshops inspired by Emily Dickinson—to understand the difference between kindness and cruelty. Tina will join me in some big workshops, and talk about getting out of abusive situations.

We like the idea of connecting with people that live love as opposed to those that are mean. Here's a link from a show one of my artists, Val Kinzler created as a series of “We the She” concerts in New York City.

Val had me write a poem, “We The She.” That segment starts about 39 minutes in; the poem tells my story of shaming a friend after an unsuccessful hookup with a rock star I was in love with back then. She gave him hell for not interacting with fans, and back then I told her she shouldn’t have stood up to the guy like that, 'cause I wanted him to like me next time we met if we ever talk…. Like he's gonna actually remember me!

I could’ve lost a friendship with someone that went to bat for me as opposed to someone that didn't like me.  

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NPv0c4GPss&t=2605s

Words are important, and we need to understand them for what they are. There’s so much about “Inclusion” being a negative word lately.  "Inclusion" means "Everyone needs a lift, and someone thinks you're worth it. It's belonging with people that care about you. 

Send the elevator down!

Let me make one thing perfectly clear. AnneLeightonInclusion is who I am. It’s become as much of my brand as my exuberant poetry book, "The Anne Leighton Explosion."

I Need Your Help For My New Poem—in progress.  In fact, let’s call it, “In Progress”!!!!!

I fight City Hall and want to see change. Whether it does or doesn't, I have to be the change I want to see, because that's what I want in the world. That kind of recovery helps me slow down to observe, and recognize “mean” and kindness.  

Just because I’m a writer, that doesn't mean I'm diplomatic. I've been blunt and humorous-in-an-outspoken way to every one of them.   

Give me some advice on diplomacy and I’ll work on it and turn it into a poem. 

One more link: If you have access to Facebook, please listen to my Art-in-the-Basin reading. Most of the poems were written after The Leighton Explosion, so I'm still at it. There's also a reading of the poem about my Mom on her 100th Birthday. 

www.facebook.com/artinthebasin/videos/931976168342958

Thank you for reading and checking out my work. I love encouragement like that. Hoping you have a cool summer! 

 

 

 

Happy 100th Birthday, Mom (Dedicated to Halin Pryves Leighton)

She painted in the attic

Never complained about it

Instead she hated politics

People deliberately being dramatic.

 

Imagine the journeys of women

From time’s beginning

They listened too much to parents

beliefs in subjection

 

“Girls don’t want to be single

You don’t want big muscles

Get married, don’t go to school

Take it easy, you don’t need to hustle

 

I’ve messages from my ancestors

‘cause there were fighters out there

Not those against one another

but not treating others like sisters.

 

Time we learned enlightening

Together what can we bring

Teaching about love, not fighting

It takes a tiny bit of thinking

 

I’m standing on the shoulders

Of my mother, my grandmothers,

and all my ancestors

overcoming man-created disasters

 

I got my DNA tested

I’m a mutt -- 100 percent

combination of world history

Indus Valley people had services

 

Women leading the women

In ancient Vietnam  

Fighting against oppression

Of poor people as their mission.

 

Talk about Esther -- my Jewish roots

Helping afflicted a virtue  

Teaching us to find our superpowers

Comes with connecting with our truths

 

I know I’m not the first to fight back

European cat lovers and the worst attacks

horrid generational flashbacks

Don’t call them witches or crazy asses

 

I never wanted to have children

Just loving my cats and kittens

and living with my own creations

means speaking up is divine intervention.

 

Spider Poems

The Thrive Tribe

 I have a relationship with my spiders 

and do my best to keep them alive.

I learn parables from my spiders

they do great good to help me survive. 

Roommates

(Spiders At Peace) 

Writer the Spider

and Rider the Spider

sat down beside 

one so playful

with intentions

that flowed stomps.

Writer the Spider

And Rider the Spider

jagged their fright

in flight forced

them to die.

  

 

“I Don’t Want to be Your Narcissist

(To Rider, Writer, and the Rest of the Spiders in 1A)

First, I came for the roaches,

with mint leaves and ruthless baking soda,

swatting armies on daily patrol

that paintballed walls in shit-colored splat   

snacked on by tan spiders’ domesticated webs   

 

Who knew they’d connect jagged

movements to twist and knit the final curtain

Heralding my own healing crossroads

In harmony of spiders work on wood

Like an evolved shade of hair on my head

 

I find if I blow soft and tender

They shake their legs working spinners

Long may they live and may they stay

Collaboration these spiders all day

Writer and Rider the Spiders they play

 

Unpatterned weaves matching Whitman’s hair,

If they moved, I’d change my color

There’s no food for them anymore

They did their job, now will they leave

As that ruthless soda turns them to gold  

 

The Beatles sang an octopus pad

Who’d scare my 18-pound cat

Making me his easy treat attacking bugs

I play both sides I love my cats

Chase the spiders See how they run—attack!  

 

All my roaches cleaned out of the kitchen

They were yesterday’s lesson

I remember the dirty crass wall

But I learned I don’t need them

Clean dishes showing me dirt deletion’s win

 

My Spiders are in Crisis with no roaches

Stan Lee would tell me I’m cruel  

to Writer, Rider the Spiders 

heroes trusting me must fight to survive    

They killed the roaches and heard my battle cry, "die, cobweb makers, die."  

-July 2024

 

 

 

 

Author Tina Jackson on The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show - Sea...

Author/Poet/Cosmetologist/Mother Tina Jackson

on the First Episode of

The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show

 

Tina talks about her new novel, “Love Don’t Hurt” and her upcoming May 25, at 5 pm appearance at Sisters Uptown Bookstore and Cultural Center, Inc., New York City, along with authors Arleen Jamison and Rhonda Lyles.  Copy this #Bitly: bit.ly/3ykPIEF

Tina reads a poem. We solve some of the world's problems, as well. A great solution is to reach for the people that love you. Build your tribe. 

from "Cyberseussarianatural"

 

In five simple words-

They will pretend you don’t

Have the right to say

What needs to be said.

Bronx Poet Anne Leighton Presents First Real World Performance this Decade February 20

Night Dedicated to Spoken World Artist’s Late, Great 100 Year & Two Day Old Mom  

Art in the Basin Presents Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet and Spoken Word artist Anne Leighton, who will share her poems on February 20, at 7 pm. This event takes place at Mon Amour Coffee & Wine, 234 W 238th St, New York, NY,  The venue phone is 718- 708-7804.

This get-together takes place off of Broadway, in Riverdale, and is on the 9 and 12 bus routes, and the 1 Train.

Art in the Basin’s event page is www.eventbrite.com/o/art-in-the-basin-30517892264?fbclid=IwAR13Q5UGqChS1jH8ioTETiMjDkVgMrrR3l5A4BQzpORwvbRdzk0zmEOhgsU.

Their Facebook page is www.facebook.com/artinthebasin

Anne’s program will include new poems including one dedicated to her female ancestors, especially her late Mom Halin, who would’ve been 100 years and two days old on the day of her reading.  “My Mom taught me to collaborate with my creations,” says Anne. 

She also plans to read fan favorites from her poetry and prose book, The Leighton Explosion (Soul Asylum, Canada). Her work shows a range of stories and interests, especially in rock music and creating peace and love in her world. Anne’s publisher Ken Cowle says she “made me laugh.” Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, who writes the book’s foreword, praises her “lilt” and “personality” in an encouraging note to her. 

While Anne usually works as a music publicist with musicians including Jethro Tull, Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius, Sharon Katz & The Peace Train, and Michael Veitch, she’s made money and helped improve her social status from her poetry work. The “rock climbing” includes appearing on the Grammy-nominated album, Healthy Food for Thought: Good Enough to Eat, (Audio & Video Labs) with Anne reading her poem “Feed Your Parents Well.”   

Her poems have been published in The Indie Collaborative’s “Holiday Program,” “The Literary Parrot Anthology,” “Elephant Journal,” “BOG GOB,” “Powerline,” “the Aquarian,” and “Nickel.” A member and occasional officer in the Bronx Toastmasters Club, she has performed live at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Peter Max’s Studio. Some of her plays have been performed live—one by the Poets Repertory Theatre of Long Island and another by the San Antonio Living River Church, and at New York City’s Howl Fest.

Anne’s other books are Paws For Thought: How to Understand What Your Cat is Thinking (Rockwell Books, UK), Using Your Art & the Media to Comfort People (Free To Run Books, West Hills, CA), and the self-published e-book, Get the Gig (Common Sense Career Consulting). Anne recently started producing pop singles. 

Poems and songs on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/leightonmedia/sets/the-leighton-explosion?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Downloadable flier to share.

  

Why Do Good Girls Like Bad Boys?

Angel and Devil

on each shoulder

changing their minds

sometimes

we agree

and disagree

ambiguously

unpredictably

 

-Jan.2024