Therese Gleason
@theresegleason.bsky.social
(she/her) poems, essays, a lil fiction, chronic migraineur, public school teacher, poetry chaps HEMICRANIA (Chestnut Review, 2024); MATRILINEAL (Finishing Line, 2021); LIBATION (Co-Winner, South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2006)
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3 poems from Hemicrania are included in the 2025 New England Poetry Club’s Prize Winners Anthology - thank you so much to the NEPC and contest judge @mehpoeting.bsky.social Huge congratulations to the all the finalists and prize winners 🤩 nepoetryclub.org/hemicrania-by-therese-gleason/
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
3 poems from Hemicrania are included in the 2025 New England Poetry Club’s Prize Winners Anthology - thank you so much to the NEPC and contest judge @mehpoeting.bsky.social Huge congratulations to the all the finalists and prize winners 🤩 nepoetryclub.org/hemicrania-by-therese-gleason/
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!!
October 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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.
Thanks, @midwestreview.bsky.social, for putting this beautiful issue online and shareable! It's a joy to have words in Issue 12.
THERESE GLEASON
Photophobia Golden shovel after Theodore Roethke I need a hole to crawl in, a cave, a cocoon, a cool marsupial pocket of dark peace. Who needs sight all the time— the fish in Mammoth Cave glide thr…
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September 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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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.
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!
September 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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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The Best of Halfway Down the Stairs, 2005-2025
For this special occasion of our twentieth anniversary, we are pleased to pull the band back together, giving editors past and present the chance to highlight some of our absolute favorite submissi…
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September 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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
Absolutely chilling CNF @theresegleason.bsky.social @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
Black Ice
Therese Gleason Central Massachusetts, U.S.A. February, 2025 Last night I slipped off the bottom step onto the front walk, leash in hand, yanking the poor dog with me—thank God for the hooded d…
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August 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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
Absolutely chilling CNF @theresegleason.bsky.social @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
Yep.
It's not news that women are often taken less seriously than men in health care settings, but the data can be eye-opening — and infuriating. From "The Headache" (amzn.to/44TeSXu).
#migraine #headache
#migraine #headache
July 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Yep.
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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/
You can find Hemicrania on our website now! chestnutreview.com/chapbooks-2/
July 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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/
You can find Hemicrania on our website now! chestnutreview.com/chapbooks-2/
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July 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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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😍💕
"Migraines feel like such a lonely—and invisible, when you’re not puking—condition. By the end of Hemicrania, I felt much less lonely."
@ajfields.bsky.social reviews @theresegleason.bsky.social's chapbook from @chestnutreview.bsky.social in our July/August issue:
@ajfields.bsky.social reviews @theresegleason.bsky.social's chapbook from @chestnutreview.bsky.social in our July/August issue:
Ode to the Migraineur: A Review of Hemicrania
Maybe it’s the perimenopause talking, but more and more I feel as if I’m surrounded by migraineurs. It took years for me to recognize the multifaceted ways that my migraines erupt: to confidently name...
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July 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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
#migraine
July 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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
#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.
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#Migraine
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Hemicrania Launch Party (Therese Gleason)
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July 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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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#Migraine
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#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!
July 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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!
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"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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Wow, this powerful piece of writing by @theresegleason.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Black Ice
Therese Gleason Central Massachusetts, U.S.A. February, 2025 Last night I slipped off the bottom step onto the front walk, leash in hand, yanking the poor dog with me—thank God for the hooded d…
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July 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"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/
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/
July 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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!
❤️ @theresegleason.bsky.social's praise for MY LITTLE BOOK OF DOMESTIC ANXIETIES
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Or signed from me—with more reasonable shipping, lol.
available at ballerinibookpress.ch/product/my-l...
Or signed from me—with more reasonable shipping, lol.
June 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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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New Ohio Review
Poetry, Pain, and the Power of Expression in Therese Gleason’s Hemicrania By Bridget Rexhausen Therese Gleason’s latest book, Hemicrania (Chestnut Review Chapbooks, 2024), focuses on migraine…
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June 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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!!
May 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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...
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May 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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.
April 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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.
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April 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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.
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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.
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“Doing the Undoing Dance”: Anne Sexton’s Brutal—and Brave—Struggle for Agency
By Therese Gleason Dance imagery abounds in Anne Sexton’s ouevre, but the waltzes and allusions to fairy-tale-inspired ballets in her poems are characterized by compulsion and madness like that of …
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April 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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...
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
February 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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!
February 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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!