Publications

                  
Books and Filmscripts
2008  Second Opinion. Leatha Kendrick. (Cincinnati, OH: David Robert Books, 2008).
2003  Science in Your Own Back Yard. Leatha Kendrick. (Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2003).
2002 Crossing Troublesome: Twenty Five Years of the Appalachian WritersWorkshop. Ed. Leatha Kendrick and George Ella Lyon. (Lexington, KY: Wind, 2002).
A Lasting Thing for the World: The Photography of Doris Ulmann. Written by Leatha Kendrick. Produced and directed by Heather Lyons. (Lexington, KY: Little City Productions, 2002).
2000  Heart Cake. Leatha Kendrick. (Abingdon, VA: The Sow’s Ear Press, 2000). 
     
Poems
2007 "Ghazal for the State of the Union," The Louisville Review (forthcoming).
"Black Wax Crayon," "Apartment of Her Own," "Look-alike Shopping," Nantahala Review, 3:02, Summer/Fall, 2007.
"Our Grandmother’s Mirror," "Calling," Wind, 96.
"Take the Dog," Passager, Vol. 44, Fall, 2007.
"Imagine," Appalachian Heritage, Vol. 35, No. 3, Summer 2007.
"Photography," MARGIE, Vol. 6. (forthcoming)
"Late Show," We Are What We Watch: Poets Reflect on Movies, TV, and the Media, ed. Todd Pierce (Syracuse University Press). (forthcoming)
"Brought-On Bride," Appalachian Journal (forthcoming)
2006 "No Reason," The Connecticut Review, Winter, 2006.
"Second Opinion," "Sonogram," Christmas, Adolescence, Yin and Yang," "Costume. Fakery. The Sell.," "Pear Tree Mastectomy," "Learn to 
Love What’s Left," & "’Chance Favors the Prepared Mind,’" in "Learn to Love What’s Left: Poems on Breast Cancer," Chapter 7 in The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics, M. C. Rawlinson and S.B. Lundeen, eds. (Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2006).
2005 "The Oiled Road," Now & Then, Autumn, 2005.
"Fishing with my Father in the Middle Field Pond," Of Woods and Waters, ed. Ron Ellis (University Press of Kentucky, 2005).
"Tonight Weaving," Shenandoah, Vol. 55, No. 1, Spring, 2005.
"What You Leave Me," "How It Feels Now," Crying Sky: Poetry and Conversation, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring, 2005.
"Out of ‘The Waiting Room," blink, Dec. 2004-Jan. 2005, vol. 4, no. 3.
"Morning of the Heart Test," Wind, 94 (2005).
"Offering," The Heartland Review, Spring, 2005.
2004  "Ravish," Poetry as Prayer: Appalachian Women Speak, Denise McKinney, editor. (Wind Publications, 2004).
"Love Poem in Late Autumn," Cold Mountain Review. Vol.33, No. 1, Fall, 2004.
"Hiding Place," Appalachian Journal. Vol. 32, No. 1, Fall 2004.
2003  "Refusing a Spinal," "The Familiar Level," (reprinted in) Listen Here!—Women Writing in Appalachia, Sandra Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson, eds. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003).
"Doris Ulmann, confined to bed by illness (again), contemplates her life from her Park Avenue apartment," Appalachian Heritage, Vol. 31, No. 4.
2002 "Zen Laundry" reprinted in Arts Across Kentucky, Fall, 2002.
"Birthday," Now & Then, Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 2002.
"First, Grief," "Photograph on the Steps Before the Dance, 1948," "Zen Laundry," reprinted in Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women’s Poetry, Felicia Mitchell, ed. (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2002).
"It," Intimate Kisses, the Poetry of Sexual Pleasure, ed. Wendy Maltz. (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2001), 74.
"Mammography," The Louisville Review, Number 46, Summer 2001.
2000 Heart Cake (Abingdon, VA: Sows Ear Press, 2000)
Featured poet in Bloodroot, (Southeast [KY] Community College) Volume Five, Summer, 2000. [Interview and six poems, "Happy Birthday," "Horse to Water," "Knotty Pine," "Photograph on the Steps Before the Dance," "Revising Mother," and "Vanishing Acts."]
1999 "She’s Got Him Wrapped" & "Refusing a Spinal," Writing Who We Are, Poems by Kentucky Feminists. Oakes, Elizabeth and Jane Olmstead, eds. (Bowling Green,KY: Western Kentucky University Press, 1999).
"She’s Got Him Wrapped" & "Refusing a Spinal," Writing Who We Are, Poems by Kentucky Feminists. Oakes, Elizabeth and Jane Olmstead, eds. (Bowling Green, KY: Western Kentucky University Press, 1999).
"A Middle-Aged Persephone Gathers Her Onions," The Louisville Review No. 46, Summer 1999.
"Translating Daddy," "Refusing a Spinal," "The Familiar Level," "Bull Thistle," "Never Nowhere Without the No," " First, Grief," & "The Shape of His Need," Mossy Creek Reader, No. 8, Spring, 1999.
"A Simple Thing," Spud Stories (anthology), Helicon Nine Press, 1999.
"The Visible Transformations of a Summer Night," Nimrod, Vol. 42, No. 2, Spring/Summer, 1999.
1998 "The End of Her Green Sleep," "Reunion," "March Thaw," "New Year's Day," The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Vol. VIII, No. 3, September.
"Unknowns," Licking River Review, vol. 29, Winter/Spring, 1997-1998.
"At the Sink I Rinse My Bowl," Passages North, Volume 19, Number 2.
"Morning With Oatmeal," The Carnegie Center Press, No.2, February, 1998. (anthology)
"A Life Spent in Contemplation of a Single Thought," The American Voice , No. 45, 1998.
"A Life Spent in Contemplation of a Single Thought," The American Voice , No. 45, 1998.
"Voyage," Connecticut Review, Volume XX, No. 1, Spring 1998.
1997 "Knowing That Most Things Break," "North Ridge Face," The Aurora: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Fall, 1997, Issue 2.
"Adam Stands in His Garden," Now and Then 13.3 Winter 1996-97.
1996 "Zen Laundry," Cincinnati Poetry Review, no. 27, Spring/Summer 1996.
"Touching the Cat," Kalliope 18.1, Spring 1996.
1995 "A Simple Thing," Now and Then 12.3. Fall 1995.
1994 "The Only Way to See the Light," "A Child Become the Hill," "Another June," "Sleeping Beauty," The Journal Kentucky Studies 11 (1994): 14 - 18.
"What Binds Us," Wind 73 (1994), 13.
1993 "May Nights," "Cicada Song," A Gathering at the Forks ed. George Ella Lyon, Jim Wayne Miller, Gurney Norman. Vision Books: Wise, VA, 1993. 185-86.
1992 "Winter Mornings," "May Nights," "Winter Mornings:" Poems from the Community, The Carnegie Center, December, 1992. 1, 19.
"Child on a Swing," "Chronology," Pegasus, Boulder City, Nevada. 1992.
"Summer Shadow," Grab-a-Nickel 15.1 (1992): 5.
1991 "April waking," "Cicada Song," "Sharing a Love of Sunlight," The Journal of Kentucky Studies 8 (1991): 16 - 19.
1990  "Raising the Poem," Byline, September 1990.
     
Creative Non-Fiction
2006 "Confirmation—1913," Wind, 95 (2006).
2005 "How I Did Not Drown in a ‘River of Earth’ and Learned to Love the ‘Prisoning Hills,’" Wind, 94 (2005).
"Notes from a Not-Quite-Native Daughter," Missing Mountains (Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2005).
2004 "Worn Paths, A Meditation on Walking Down the Aisle," I to I: Life Writing By Kentucky Feminists (Bowling Green, KY: WKU Press, 2004).
2003 "Bound Into the Mystery," Kentucky Christmas Stories (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003).
"Picking the Trash," Tobacco: A Literary Anthology (Wind Publications, 2003).
"No Place Like Home—excerpt," Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003).
"Portrait of Doris Ulmann," Appalachian Heritage, Vol. 31, No. 4, 3-8.
2002 "The World is a Wheel," Crossing Troublesome: Twenty-five Years of the Appalachian Writers Workshop (Wind, 2002).
1999  "No Place Like Home," The American Voice, No. 49, Summer, 1999
   
Book Reviews (a partial listing)
2003 "Silence into Song." Review of Black Swan by Lyrae Van Clief-Stephanon, Appalachian Journal, Volume 31, No. 2, Winter, 2004.
2002 Review of Letters Home, poems by Jeff Daniel Marion, Now & Then, Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 2002.
2001 "Kentuckian’s Poetic Words Introduce a New World." Review of Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, poems by Maurice Manning, Lexington Herald-Leader, 16 September, 2001, H4.
1999 Review of Charles Wright’s Appalachia, Lexington Herald-Leader, April, 1999.
1998 "All Around Us" Review of All Around Us, Poems from the Valley, Now & Then, Appalachian Poetry issue, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer, 1998.
1996 "Love and death give up some secrets" (review of Carolina Moon, by Jill McCorkle), Lexington Herald-Leader 6 October 1996, D8.
1994 "It's hard to find shelter in a dark world of abuse." Review of Jayne Anne Phillips's, Shelter. Lexington Herald-Leader 18 December 1994.
"To end in wisdom: 'It'll be all right.’" Review of Wendell Berry's Entries. Lexington Herald-Leader 29 May 1994, F4.
"What is it about poetry that is essential?" Review of Adrienne Rich's What Is Found There. Lexington Herald-Leader 27 Mar. 1994, E7.
"Appalachian poet's journey of the spirit." Review of the Holy Season: Walking in the Wild--Poems Sacred and Profane by Albert Stewart. Lexington Herald-Leader 30 Jan. 1994, F6.
"It's the small moments of life that give it meaning." Review of The Eighth Continent, by Don Boes. Lexington Herald-Leader 2 Jan. 1994, F4.
1993 "Homage to self, place, kin." Review of Catalpa, by George Ella Lyon. Lexington Herald-Leader, 14 Nov, 1993, E6.
"Mary Oliver's poems are 'like an intimate letter.'" Review of New and Selected Poems. Lexington Herald-Leader 31 Jan. 1993, F5.
  
Articles, Interviews
2003 "Tell Me a Story—Joe Survant’s Vision and Voice," Arts Across Kentucky, Fall, 2003.
"A Poet’s Country--Charles Semones," Arts Across Kentucky, Summer, 2003.
"Strong Rhythms—Nikky Finney’s Poetry." Arts Across Kentucky, Spring, 2003.
"Sitting in the Shade—Looking at Poems," Arts Across Kentucky, Winter, 2003.
"Listening for the Poem’s Voice—The Poetry of George Ella Lyon," Arts Across Kentucky, Winter, 2003.
2002 "At Root We Are All Poets—A Conversation with Richard Taylor," Arts Across Kentucky, Fall, 2002.
1998 "Small Presses: Market Niches and Labors of Love," Now & Then, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer, 1998.
"Rock Fences of the Bluegrass Still in Jeopardy," Odyssey, The Magazine of University of Kentucky Research, Volume XVI, No. 1, Fall, 1998.
1997 "Confirming a Community--The Appalachian Writers Workshop at Twenty Years," Appalachian Heritage, Winter 1997-98
"Assessing Stress, Getting to the Heart of the Matter," Odyssey, The Magazine of University of Kentucky Research, Volume XIV, No.2, Winter/Spring 1997 .
1995 "An Interview with George Ella Lyon" The Journal of Kentucky Studies. Volume 12, Fall 1995.
"Intellect and Imagination, An Interview with James Baker Hall," Wind, 75, Spring, 1995.
1993 "A Partnership: Jenny Wiley Theatre and the David School," ACE 5.5 (June, 1993), 23, 28.
1992 "At Issue: Career vs. Homemaking--At Home," Floyd County Times, 9 Dec. 1992, W3, 6.
"East Point," History of Floyd County (KY), Floyd County Bicentennial Committee, 1992. 39-41.
"Jenny Wiley Theatre," History of Floyd County (KY), Floyd County Bicentennial Committee, 1992. 105-107.