Gloria Monaghan
Gloria Monaghan is a Professor of Humanities at Wentworth University in the School of Sciences and Humanities. She has published five books of poetry: Flawed (Finishing Line Press),Torero (Nixes Mate), The Garden (Flutter Press), False Spring (Adelaide), and Hydrangea (Kelsay Books). Her sixth book is due out in 2023 with Lily Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared in Alexandria Quarterly, NPR, Poem-a-Day, Adelaide, Aurorean, Chiron, Nixes-Mate, Mom Egg Review, and Lily Poetry Review, among others. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award. Her book False Spring was nominated for the Griffin Prize.
Degrees
Achievements
Books:
Hydrangea, Kelsay Press, 2020
Torero, Nixes Mate, 2020
False Spring, Adelaide Books, 2019
The Garden, Flutter Press, 2015
Flawed, Finishing Line Press, 2011
Nominated for Pushcart Prize, Lily Review, 2020
Nominated for Pushcart Prize, Adelaide Books, 2019
Nominated for Griffin Prize, Adelaide Books, 2019
My Work
Education
Master of Arts in Literature
Boston College-Boston
Bachelor of Arts in Literature
Loyola University-Chicago
Publications
• Cormorant on the Strand,” “Remnants of my Property,” “A Place in the Sun,” Raintree County” Lily Poetry Review, Summer 2021
• Book Review, Manimal Woe, Fanny Howe, Lily Poetry Review
• “The Man who did not Believe in Watches,” Anti-Heroin Chic
• Excerpt from “A Place in the Sun” Bangkok Biennial Cloud 9 Pavilion
• “When 2 hearts Meet” Anti-Heroin Chic
• “The Age of Reason” Mom Egg Review, Spring Issue
• Book Review of Hydrangea by Peter Valente, poet, translator, Lily Poetry Review Spring Issue
• Publication of book, Hydrangea, by Kelsay Press.
• Publication “The Attic” First Literary Review East
• “Port Huron,” “Spadderdock Song” published in Nixes Mate
• “1916 James Flewelling Shoots His Friend by the Explosion of a Gun,” Published in Lily Poetry Review
• Publication of “Sebastian Melmoth,” Nixes Mate
• Republication of “Sebastian Melmoth” Poetry2go
• Publication of “Before the Age of Reason,” Mom Egg Review
• MOAR South Shore Arts Center, Gallery Exhibit “The Yellow House.” Collaboration with visual artist Frank Navin
• “Opera Bag,” First Literary Review East
• “Pandemic Bird You are My Highway” Global Poemic
• “The Sensible Thing,” NPR Sunday Poetry Series
• How Swimmers Dream, Illustrated compilation of poetry anthology on swimming. A Turtle Press Book. “In the Pipewort”
2018
• Poem of the Moment, chosen by Mass Poetry, “Victory Garden”
• Published “Don’t Wake Me Up” Chiron Review
• Published “Victory Garden,” “The Park” Nixes Mate
• Publication of False Spring, Adelaide Press,
• Published “The Hand,” “Cemetery,” “The Days Pass Like Blue Wheels,” First Literary Review-East, January, March, May Issue.
• Published “Tulip Tree” Adelaide Literary Award Anthology 2018
Poetry, finalist for 2nd 2018 Award for Poetry
• Published “The Meadow” Underground Writer’s Association
Presentations
2020
• Invited reader for New England Poetry Club Poetry Festival for recipients of poets with books published in 2020
• Participant reading at Mom Egg Review Spring 2021 edition
• Abstract accepted for Fitzgerald, “Losing and Regaining Hope on the Dusty Road to Asheville, Princeton Symposium for Literature
2019
• Book signing at NYC Book Expo for False Spring
• Invited reader at Tompkins Square Library, NYC, “Back Home Again,” Voices o