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!!

THERESE GLEASON midwestreview.org/current-issu... 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 halfwaydownthestairs.net/2025/09/01/t...

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

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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😍💕

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! 💛 🖤 #migraine

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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho0F... #Migraine

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 💙💙💙 pitheadchapel.com/black-ice/

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. 🤩 newohioreview.org/2025/06/01/p...

Getting excited for the Mass Poetry Festival this weekend in Salem!!

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.

Grateful to have a travel flash essay published in the (aptly) survival-themed Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, about visiting Wli Waterfalls in Ghana's Volta region in 2023. Thank you to Matthew Webb and team for giving this piece a home. panoramajournal.org/issues/issue...

My essay on a couple of Anne Sexton's poems in the dance-themed New Ohio Review Issue 35 is available online, along with an array of stellar work. With gratitude to the editors for their awesomeness (they are so great to work with), and for including this piece. newohioreview.org/2025/03/01/d...

Thrilled to present the incredible process of artist Shee Gomes, who printed and collaged hundreds of my MRI brain pics to create the cover of my dreams for my chapbook, Hemicrania. Second photo shows her "Resonance" series. Obrigada, Shee!!! xoxo😍 #louisvilleconference

Before - and after - our presentation, “Exploding Head: Writing Migraine and Other Manifestations of the Wayward Brain” 🧠 at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture. Thanks to Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Sarah M. Sala, Maria S. Picone, and Shee Gomes for their brilliant contributions!

Getting excited to present "Exploding Head: Writing Migraine and Other Manifestations of the Wayward Brain," with Shee Gomes, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Sarah M. Sala, and Maria S. Picone at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture in my hometown next week!

So saddened to learn of the death of @daniellelegrosgeorges - I had the pleasure of attending her talk and reading at the American Antiquarian Society this past June. She was brilliant, gracious, and warm and I’m so grateful I had the chance to meet her, and to have her work in the world.

Poetry Book Club last night with @angelacv.bsky.social, @theresegleason.bsky.social, @joseph-landi.bsky.social and @ruthhoberman (who maybe closed her account?) was a delight as always!

I LOVE Worcester Public Library! Many favorite things, not listed in order: extensive poetry holdings, including contemporary; Evening with the Authors annual fundraiser; free books giveaway to public educators; and coolest children's area ever. Check it out:) www.mywpl.org

A happy mail day: New Ohio Review Issue 35 arrived with my essay, "Doing the Undoing Dance:" Anne Sexton's Brutal–and Brave–Struggle for Agency in the feature "Dance as Joy and Resistance." Currently devouring the contents by all these fantastic contributors :). Thx eds. Dave, Clayton, and Colleen!

So happy you're back!!!!!

The Jan/Feb edition of ON THE SEAWALL has just been published. Please stop by the gallery for a look. ronslate.com

Prayer against headache to the patron saint of migraines for anyone who needs it, invoking Teresa of Avila. I love how humans are referred to as ‘worldlings’! Having insurance issues getting my monthly injectable preventive, so this comes in handy. #migrainechat

St. Teresa of Avila, Patron Saint of Headaches - and one of my namesakes. 💕 thanks to my dear friend Carolyn for this apt gift

Poets for Science "is a participatory project and installation exploring the connection between science and poetry." Check out this incredible project poetsforscience.org#featured

Grateful to the editors of The Nature of Our Times online gallery and companion to the www.globalchange.gov/our-work/nat... Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler at The Wick Poetry Center. Submit your work to this wonderful opportunity🌍

(2/2) Thrilled to have 2 poems in the online gallery for "The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders." Such a cool project integrating science, poetry, and advocacy for our planet. 🐦🦋🌏. natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/salve-regina/

(1/2) Thrilled to have 2 poems in the online gallery for "The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders." Such a cool project integrating science, poetry, and advocacy for our planet. 🐦🦋🌏. natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/elegy-for-a-...

I am so grateful that someone took the time to post this review of my chapbook, Hemicrania, on Amazon - and that they could relate. One of my hopes for this collection was that it would find its way to others that live with migraine - and that they would feel seen and validated. 🥰🤩🥹

Hemicrania is available on Bookshop in addition to Amazon. I'm also selling my own copies if anyone wants a signed one - dm me! 💜 Would love to send a copy gratis if anyone is interested in writing a book review, or knows a person/journal/mag that might be. Thanks! . 🙌 bookshop.org/p/books/hemi...

This might have been my favorite quote from the Van Gogh immersive exhibit, which I loved!

It’s my birthday, buy my book?😉 DM me if you’d like a signed copy or get it on Amazon - I’m working on getting it into some independent booksellers near me. 💛🖤💛🖤 If you’d like a review copy I’ll gift it 🎁. 🙏🏻🙌🏻

Happy holidays!! 😂

“[A] hope too daring can be dangerous and destructive when your illness is chronic and without a cure.” Please help me amplify this piece I wrote on #grief and #chronicillness #chronicpain #chronicmigraine #spoonie #migraine #invisibleillness #invisibledisability. medium.com/@NehaMSampat...

So grateful for this wonderful blurb for my chapbook, Hemicrania, from Rita Maria Martinez, sister migraineur/chronic daily headache - she is not only an advocate for those with headache disorders but also an incredible poet who writes powerfully on the subject. 🧠 #migrainechat

Thrilled to share this beautiful response to Hemicrania by Sarah M. Sala, who is at work on her own collection about exploring migraine (and its strange sensory impacts) through a lens of play. I'm honored and so grateful, Sarah. ❤️ #migrainechat #poetry

Factors and Reasons Associated with Hesitating to Seek Care for #Migraine: Results of the OVERCOME (US) Study Spoiler: it's largely stigma. #MigraineChat

Carolyn Oliver is my dear friend - and a brilliant poet. Not only did she write me a beautiful blurb, but she also has provided insightful editorial input on Hemicrania. She's every bit as astute and sensitive an editor as she is a talented poet. I'm overwhelmed with gratitude 💕 #migraine

In anticipation of my chap launch this week, I'm thrilled, and humbled, to share the generous blurbs provided by several poets whose work I deeply admire. I am deeply grateful to Cynthia Hoffman for her stunning memoir-in-verse, Exploding Head, and for her kind and beautiful words here.

So excited to launch my chap with these stellar poets and migraine friends who generously blurbed my collection, and Sheila "Shee" Gomes, who designed my cover, inspired by her "Resonance" series using brain MRIs. Sign up info below! #migrainechat #migraine #chronicdailyheadache #poetry

A stunning illustration of migraine aura!