September 2014 – Gloria Monaghan

landfall photo

Gloria Monaghan is a Professor at Wentworth University in Boston at the School of Science and Humanities. Her most recent book is Cormorant on the Strand (Lily Poetry Review, 2023), and she was interviewed by Richard Blanco, recipient of the Humanitarian Award. Her film, Daughter of Rubens, was selected by the 25th annual Provincetown Film Festival. She has published two chapbooks and four books of poetry. Her chapbooks are Flawed (Finishing Line Press, 2011), which was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award, and Torero (Nixes Mate, 2019). Her books include; The Garden (Flutter Press, 2015), False Spring (Adelaide Books, 2019), and Hydrangea (Kelsay Books, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Blue Max Review, 2River, Adelaide, Aurorean, Chiron, Nixes-Mate, First Literary Review East, Aries, among others. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. She has also been nominated for the Griffin Prize.

Cormorant on the Strand

Lily Poetry Review

available https://lilypoetryreview.blog/lily-poetry-review-press/cormorant-on-the-strand-by-gloria-monaghan/

Kelsay Press: https://kelsaybooks.com/products/hydrangea

Available at Nixes Mate : https://nixesmate.pub/product/torero-%C2%B7-gloria-monaghan

Adelaide Books: https://adelaidebooks.org/products/false-spring-by-gloria-monaghan

Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Garden-Gloria-Monaghan/dp/151917649X

Poetry Anthology

End of Winter

recognize me if you can
you who were made before I was unmade (Canto VI)

I am in the third circle of rain
and there is also snow, which barely sits
in the brown bare branches outside the bedroom window.

There is no small bird craving food
and no sound of longing
there is only the sound of the wind

and the steel wire moving.
To let you in the door was to betray myself
to allow you to text me was a betrayal of the heart

even after lying and pretending to myself
that I enjoyed your hands on my body
like a winter bird just taking what I could.

I am not ashamed; but it is time to renegotiate
the way silence falls upon the heart at two in the morning
during the snowstorm with the wind hailing all corners of the mind.

More at:

https://www.capeandislands.org/post/poetry-sunday-gloria-monaghan#stream/0

https://adelaidemagazine.org/p_gmonaghan.html

http://www.alexandriaquarterlymag.com/gloria-monaghan

http://www.2river.org/2RView/18_4/poems/monaghan.html

https://poems2go.org/gloria-monaghan/

https://adelaidemagazine.org/p_gloriamonaghan11.html

http://www.slope.org/archive/issue17/hyper_monaghan.html

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