Leena Joshi

05/21/2026

So excited to have made it to the shortlist of the Poetry Wales magazine Award!

🎉 Poetry Wales Award 2026: the Shortlist

Over 600 poets, over 1,600 poems - and only 13 spots on the shortlist. We are delighted to announce the shortlisted poets chosen by our fabulous judge Bethany Handley for the Poetry Wales Award 2026, presented here in alphabetical order:

Huge llongyfarchiadau to:
• Katie Beswick
• Jeanette Burton
• Manju Devi
• Rajendra Prasad Gupta
• Dr Ben Gwalchmai
• Taiwo Hassan
• Stephen Joffe
• Patrick Jones
• Leena Joshi
• Dr Michael Kelleher
• Alex Scarborough
• Joshua Seigal
• Gordon Taylor

Get to know them better and read their shortlisted poems here: https://poetrywales.co.uk/poetry-wales-award-2026-the-shortlist/

03/19/2026

There is a certain kind of work that asks you to think beyond the immediate, beyond the visible outcome, and into the architecture of influence itself.

For me, that work has always been about who gets to shape the conversation.

On 26th March, I will be speaking at the International Women’s Podcast Festival, hosting a session titled: Cultural Authority, Power, and New Economics in International Podcasting.

This is not a new curiosity for me as it sits at the intersection of everything I have built and studied over the years, from leading to engaging with global platforms where narrative, power, and public discourse constantly evolve.

Podcasting, in its quiet precision, is doing something erudite. It is redistributing cultural authority. It is allowing independent voices, creators across geographies, and those historically outside institutional media to participate in shaping global thought.

What interests me most is not simply the growth of the medium, but the question beneath it: how credibility forms in decentralized ecosystems, and how trust is negotiated when there is no single gatekeeper.

This is the conversation I am looking forward to holding.

And perhaps more importantly, the future I am holding in mind as I step into that room: one where the podcast ecosystem becomes truly global, where voices from every region contribute to public discourse, and where creators are able to build work that is both impactful and sustainable.

Because the future of media will not be defined by platforms alone. It will be defined by who is heard, who is trusted, and who is able to endure.

On 26th March.

In conversation, and in intention.

02/13/2026

I have watched a fallen tree soften into the earth,
its former height remembered only by birds.
Fungi traced pale alphabets along its side,
writing sermons no human hand would preserve.
Here, matter consented to its next becoming.

12/15/2025

Scientists are racing through ice-choked waters off Greenland to track ocean currents that regulate the planet’s climate. Too much Arctic melt could collapse these currents, bringing stronger storms, frostier winters, and shifting rains worldwide. The clock is ticking.

12/14/2025

Every year is hotter, wildfires rage, seas rise, and life gets harder. But we can choose a better future: renewable energy, cleaner cities, sustainable food, and smarter industry. The science is clear, the choice is ours, the time is now.

📷NYT

12/12/2025

The ♻️ symbol doesn’t mean something is recyclable. Most plastics end up in landfills or oceans, only 9 percent ever get recycled. Climate, oceans, wildlife and our health are paying the price. We need laws that make producers responsible, not just consumers.