Poetry

Virginia LeBaron is a nurse and a poet. Her writing is inspired, in part, by her experiences caring for patients with cancer. She is the author of the chapbook Cardinal Marks, (Finishing Line Press, 2021) and her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Mom Egg Review, Potomac Review, Bicoastal Review (contest finalist), Winter Anthology (contest finalist), and Pigeon Pages, among others. Virginia's writing has been supported by a fellowship with the Virginia Center for the Creative Art and she is an alum of the Lighthouse Poetry Collective. In 2025, she was a finalist for the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry and the winner of the Luminaire Poetry Award.

Poems & Other Writings

  1. comings & goings, South 85 Journal, forthcoming

  2. Chasing Ice, Mom Egg Review (MER), Mom Egg Review (MER). Print issues are sold to the public at $18; PDF copies are available to the public at $5 each.

  3. The Albino Deer, Potomac Review, 2026

  4. Tortoise in Culver City; Cerberus, rescued; Stepmother, as turning point, Poetry Society of Virginia Collected Winning Entries 2026

  5. Stepmother, The Poet's Billow, Winner, Bermuda Triangle Prize

  6. East Whiteland Swim Club, Memorial Day Weekend; Currents; Bathyal; I love you best, Kelp Journal, 2026

  7. Patients I Cannot Forget: RB, Alternating Current Press (contest winner), 2025

  8. Patients I Cannot Forget: Sister Ford, Alternating Current Press (contest finalist), 2025

  9. Patients I Cannot Forget: My Father, Alternating Current Press (contest finalist), 2025

  10. Patients I Cannot Forget, One Page Poetry 2025 Anthology, 2025

  11. Détente With My Estranged Mother While I am in Paris, Taos Journal of Poetry, 2025

  12. Second Marriage Honeymoon, Tadpole Press (Top 10 Winner), 2025

  13. Gabrielle, Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place & Nature, 2025

  14. Love Poem to My Ex-Husband, Bicoastal Review (contest finalist, nominated for Best of the Net), 2025

  15. Death of the Red-Bellied Woodpecker, Bicoastal Review, 2025

  16. Dina’s Disappearance, Ocean Poetry Anthology II, 2025

  17. Patients I Cannot Forget: Man in the ICU, The Scarred Tree, 2025

  18. Patients I Cannot Forget: LE, The Scarred Tree, 2025

  19. Love Poem to Second Marriages, One Sentence Poems, 2025

  20. Love Poem to Second Marriages, Winter Anthology, 2025

  21. Patients I Cannot Forget: RB, Pigeon Pages, 2024

  22. Dinner, Kiawah Island, Gyroscope Review, 2021

  23. Cardinal Marks, Finishing Line Press (chapbook), 2021