Small Pleasures

<p><strong>These small pleasures of intelligent thoughtful and thought-provoking poems will warm the reader's heart.</strong></p><p> <strong>     -Sandra Costich</strong></p><p><strong>An old song tells us that Little things mean a lot and rarely has this been as true as it is in <em>Small Pleasures </em>Nikia Leopold's bittersweet engagements with a glorious and mortal world. The title poem describes Pleasures with the heft of tinsel / so small they're irreducible. Also irreducible are these sharply observed precisely crafted poems that contain and provoke depths of feeling.</strong></p><p> <strong>     -Michael Palma</strong></p><p><strong>If you want to be moved read these poems.</strong></p><p> <strong>     -Julia Wendell</strong></p><p><strong>Niki Leopold is an exquisite receiver-of sensory news complex emotions hints of meaning. Her poems are passionate delicate fierce brave.</strong></p><p> <strong>     -Mary Azrael</strong></p><p><strong>The sparse finely made poems in Niki Leopold's <em>Small Pleasures </em>possess the intricacy of snowflakes each crystalline portrait revealing the wonder of existence encountered in an ordinary moment.</strong></p><p> <strong>     -Pauline Uchmanowicz</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Niki Leopold is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in Poetry and has a Ph.D. in Art History also from Hopkins. Her poems have appeared in <em>The American Scholar Commonweal Poetry East</em> and <em>Poetry</em>. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook <em>Dark Feathers</em>. Her children's book <em>Adam's Crayons</em> is out from Galileo Press. She lives with her husband in Ruxton Maryland.</strong></p><p><br></p>