Leslie Schultz

Tipton Poetry Journal – Summer 2021

Worldly Goods

Leslie Schultz

Good that the world sticks fingers in its ears and la, la, la, hums. Good that the world doesn’t help by flinging your closed doors open. Good, too, that the world remains stony-faced when you start singing your good-for-the-world song, the one you wrote, that pours from your throat whether anyone in the world listens to even one sweet note.

Leslie Schultz (Northfield, Minnesota) has three collections of poetry, Still Life with Poppies: Elegies; Cloud Song; and Concertina (Kelsay Books, 2016, 2017, 2019) and a chapbook, Larks at Sunrise: Light-hearted Poems for Dark Times (Green Gingko Press, 2021). Her poetry is in many journals, including Able Muse, Blue Unicorn, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Light, Mezzo Cammin, North Dakota Quarterly, Poet Lore, Third Wednesday, The Madison Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Orchards, Tipton Poetry Journal, and The Wayfarer. Her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2017. In 2020 she served as guest associate editor for Third Wednesday’s Winter Issue. In 2021, she will serve as a judge for the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest.). Schultz posts poems at www.winonamedia.net.