I'm thrilled to share that HEMICRANIA has won the 2025 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club, selected by Matthew E. Henry, a phenomenal poet I have long admired. A thousand thank yous to him, NEPC, and Chestnut Review for publishing it.🤩 Congrats to the incredible finalists!!

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Thanks, @midwestreview.bsky.social, for putting this beautiful issue online and shareable! It's a joy to have words in Issue 12.

Thank you again, Jeannie E. Roberts and Halfway Down the Stairs, for selecting my poems for publication in 2020 - and again for this 20th anniversary feature. Your generous comments on each poem mean the world to me. Congratulations on 20 years of curating beautiful writing, art, and community!

Congratulations to Halfway Down the Stairs on 20 years of publishing! I have such gratitude and affection for this wonderful journal, and it's such an honor to have two poems included in "Best of HDS 2005-2025." - special thanks to ed. Jeannie E. Roberts
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even if we won’t let ICE inside, we can’t prevent them from hanging around the family health center, flexing in the Stop ‘n Shop parking lot, or lurking in the street.

Absolutely chilling CNF @theresegleason.bsky.social @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

Thank you for reading 💕

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It’s Chapbook Saturday! Today’s feature is Therese Gleason’s Hemicrania. Therese dives headfirst into chronic pain and gender inequality in her work.

You can find Hemicrania on our website now! chestnutreview.com/chapbooks-2/

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Tons of gratitude to @literarymama.bsky.social and @ajfields.bsky.social for the beautiful, deeply engaged, and super smart review of my chap - which made me feel not only less invisible and lonely, but also so seen😍💕

Oh, geez, sorry, LOL - I know what you mean; migraine has a sort of magical thinking, Voldemort-esque, he-who-shall-not-be-named quality about it - like an emotional/physical contagion! Sometimes my mom will be like "I can't think/talk about it..." so double thanks to you!!!

Thank you, thank you, @ajfields.bsky.social and @literarymama.bsky.social for this dream-come-true review of my chapbook HEMICRANIA. From the perspective of another migraineur-writer-mother, it's beautifully written, deeply insightful, and so generous. What a gift. So grateful! 💛 🖤
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Amanda, thank you so much!!! So honored to have your review forthcoming💕

The virtual launch party and reading of my chapbook HEMICRANIA is now available! So grateful to my ⭐ co-presenters Cynthia Hoffman, Sarah M. Sala, Rita Maria Martinez, and cover artist Shee Gomes, and @chestnutreview.bsky.social editor Maria S. Picone.
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So happy to learn that my story, “Motherlode,” was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50! With gratitude to @cincinnatireview for publishing it last spring in the miCRo series - which was an honor in itself🤩 congrats to all!

"In pictures my students draw of themselves with mami and papi, baby brothers and sisters, it’s always sunny with a blue sky."

Wow, this powerful piece of writing by @theresegleason.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Thank you so much for reading 🙏🏻

Grateful to have my flash essay, "Black Ice," a glimpse into how I've observed the immigration crackdown impact the young multilingual learners I teach (and their families) in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social's latest issue. Many thanks to the editorss, especially Kate Gehan. pitheadchapel.com/black-ice/

My absolute pleasure!!! Must-read - grab this gem today!

Thank you so much to New Ohio Review, especially Bridget Rexhausen, for a lovely, generous, and insightful review of Hemicrania! What a gift to have your words read and considered so deeply. Love that it's out just in time for #migraineawareness month this June. 🤩
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Getting excited for the Mass Poetry Festival this weekend in Salem!!

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Thanks so much to Deep South Magazine, especially editor Erin Z. Bass, for featuring my poem, "Deathplace Pastoral," in Southern Voice. deepsouthmag.com/2025/04/29/d...

Happy to share one more recent piece in my bounty of April showers: after a dry spell, it's wonderful to have new work out in the world. Thank you much Midwest Review editors Tara Sparbel, Jeff Snowbarger, Jill Stukenberg for including "Photophobia," a version of which is in my chap, Hemicrania.