Leslie Stark
Leslie Stark, poet
Leslie Stark is a teacher, mom, poet, playwright, dancer, singer, hula hoop maker, excellent baker, expert cat napper, champion of the arts, and wildly busy person who resided on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh peoples in a place known a Vancouver. She has been published in Geist, Kiss Machine, Many Gendered Mothers, Fugue, Oratorialis, and Quills.
Stuff People Say at a Band Rehersal That Sounds Kinda Dirty — Volume 10, Issue 3
A poem that needs no explanation and earns every smirk. Leslie Stark turns the unglamorous business of band rehearsal into something gleefully suggestive in Stuff People Say at a Band Rehearsal That Sounds Kinda Dirty—proof that the most effective comedy is often just a matter of paying attention.
Can We Fix It? — Volume 10, Issue 2
Leslie Stark presents the melodramatic self-pity incited by flat-pack furniture, made gently comedic by the juxtaposition of a child’s joyful oblivion in her satirical poem, Can We Fix It?
