Gloria Mindock, poet, editor and publisher

GLORIA MINDOCK

For decades now, Gloria Mindock, known to her friends as Glo, has been publishing he own books of poems, giving public readings, and hosting public readings, as well. She's also the founder of Cervena Barva Press http://www.cervenabarvapress.com/which has championed the works of poets from countries around the world. 

From its web site, here is the press's mission statement.

ČERVENÁ BARVA PRESS was founded in April of 2005. The press solicits poetry, fiction, and plays from various writers around the world, and holds open contests regularly for its chapbooks, postcards, broadsides and full-length books. I (Gloria) look for work that has a strong voice, is unique, and that takes risks with language. Please see submission guidelines for current information. I encourage queries from Central and Eastern Europe.

Here is a link to Gloria's web site: https://www.gloriamindock.com/

To quote directly from her site: 

Gloria is the founding editor and Publisher of Červená Barva Press. She is the author of Grief Touched the Sky at Night (Forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press, 2023), ASH (Glass Lyre Press, 2021), I wish Francisco Franco Would Love Me (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), Whiteness of Bone (Glass Lyre Press, 2016), La Portile Raiului (Ars Longa Press, Romania, 2010) translated into the Romanian by Flavia Cosma, Nothing Divine Here, (U Šoku Štampa., 2010), and Blood Soaked Dresses (Ibbetson, 2007).  

Gloria is the author, with her father, Jack Mindock and her sister, Kellis Anna Dryer of the children's book Little Brown Mouse. She also is the author of three chapbooks, Doppelganger (S. Press, 1992), Oh Angel (U Šoku Štampa, 2005), and Pleasure Trout (Muddy River Poetry Review Books, 2013).

Ash, was translated into Serbian by Milutin Durickovic and published by Alma Press in Belgrade in 2022. Ash, published by Glass Lyre Press, won the International Impact Award, the NYC Big Book Award, the Firebird Speak Up Talk Radio Award, The Pacific Book Award, the International Award- The Princess, Noble Poetry Skills, Art Club of Ragkonik in Smederevo, Serbia, a Distinguished Favorite for the Independent Book Award, and the Bronze Medal from the North American Book Awards. Ash was a finalist for the Feathered Quill Book Award, and received two honorable mentions from The Royal Dragonfly Award and The San Francisco Book Festival.

​Other awards include the Allen Ginsburg Award for Community Service by the Newton Publishing center, the Ibbetson Lifetime Achievement Award, the 5th and 40th Moon Prize from Writing in a Women’s Voice, numerous Pushcart nominations, a St. Botolph Award nomination, and 3 citations for Cervena Barva Press as an editor/publisher from the MA House of Representatives, and a fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council distributed by the Somerville Arts Council. 

Gloria’s work recently has appeared in Gargoyle, The James Dickey Review, 10 x 10, Ibbetson, Growth: Journal of Literature, Culture, & Art (Macedonia), Veritas Review, POÉMAME: revista abierta de poesie, (Spain) and others. Gloria was the Poet Laureate in Somerville, MA in 2017 & 2018.

Gloria is retired as a Clinical Director and Counselor in Addictions and now freelances teaching poetry workshops, editing manuscripts of poetry and fiction for writers, and producing video book trailers.

Gloria's other extensive experience and awards include editor of the Istanbul Literary Review/ILR from 2007-2011 which was based in Istanbul, Turkey.  She was contributing editor for Levure littéraire  from 2010 until 2018. From 1984-1994, Gloria co-founded and edited the Boston Literary Review/BLuR. She coordinated a reading series called BLuR Reads from 1984-1994. During this time, she co-founded Theatre S. & S. Press, Inc. Gloria was managing director as well as being involved in acting, singing, writing music, and text for the theatre. Theatre S. received grants from New England Foundation for the Arts, Somerville Arts Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Polaroid Foundation, and the Globe Foundation.

Gloria was awarded the 5th and 40th Moon Prize from Writing in a Woman’s Voice for her poems Adventure and Listen, both which are in her book, Whiteness of Bone.

Gloria judged for The Ina Coolbrith Foundation in California in 2019 (Poetry) and has judged for the NEPC in two categories in the 1990’s. In 2020, she judged poetry on atrocities for the May issue of The Golden Walkman Magazine. She has judged for the Somerville Arts Council fellowships for poetry and fiction a few times.

Gloria was visiting artist at Tufts Experimental College, Northeastern University, Endicott College, Bunker Hill Community College, and her poetry chapbook, Oh Angel, was discussed by Luisa A. Igloria’s class at The Old Dominion University. An interview about Oh Angel followed. Her book, Whiteness of Bone, was discussed in Alan Britt’s Creative Writing Class at Towson University in Maryland.

Here is a link to Cultural Daily, which features three of Gloria's poems: https://culturaldaily.com/gloria-mindock-three-poems/

Here is her poem, Ashes

Bury me into your heart.
Don’t forget.
Even when you distribute my ashes.
Embers of arms will flow out into the wind.
What will I attach to.

The rain will push my ashes to the ground
mixing them with mud.
Stepped on, maybe someone will bring
me home on their shoe, wipe the mud off with
a rag, throw it away, then off to the dumps.
a rag, throw it away, then off to the dumps.

This is all I am, garbage!
To be buried again into non-existence.

Here is a link to the site Unlikely Stories which features a video of her reading in public: https://www.unlikelystories.org/creators/gloria-mindock

Here is a link to the Somerville Times which features an interview Gloria did with Doug Holder when she was the Poet Laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts. https://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/108196

And here is her flash prose piece, The Man Who Collected Eyelashes as published in Gargoyle magazine: https://gargoylemagazine.com/gloria-mindock/