Ralph Monday

Poet

Harriman, TN

Tennessee US

Email:

mondayrw@comcast.net

Twitter/X:

@RalphMonday

Author's Bio

Ralph Monday is Professor of English at Roane State Community College in Harriman, TN., and has published hundreds of poems in over 100 journals. A chapbook, All American Girl and Other Poems, was published in July 2014. A book Empty Houses and American Renditions was published May 2015 by Aldrich Press. A Kindle chapbook Narcissus the Sorcerer was published June 2015 by Odin Hill Press. An e-book, Bergman’s Island & Other Poems was published by Poetry Repairs in March of 2017, and was published as a print text by Terror House Press in 2021. A humanities text was published by Kendall/Hunt in 2018. Vol. 2 of the humanities text is expected in 2022. Member of Lincoln Memorial University Literary Hall of Fame

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

The Year Anthology (Crack the Spine, 2021)

Petals in the Pan (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2017)

Storm Cycle (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2017)

Elementary My Dear (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2015)

Emergence Anthology (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2015)

Petals in the Pan (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2015)

Shattered Anthology (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2015)

Storm Cycle (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2015)

Best of Crack the Spine Anthology (Crack the Spine, 2014)

Four Seasons Anthology (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014)

Storm Cycle Best of 2014 Anthology (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014)

Books:

Humanities: Journeys from the Paleolithic to Postmodernism: Early Humanities to 1600 1st Edition (Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2018)

Empty Houses and American Renditions (Aldrich Press, 2015)

Chapbooks:

Narcissus the Sorcerer (Kindle Singles, 2015)

The Girl Next Door and Other Poems (Scars Publications, 2014)

Journals:

Aberration Labyrinth

Abyss & Apex

Across the Margin

Agenda

Aji Magazine

Amphora Review

Another Way Round

Aphelion Webzine

Best Poetry Online

Blood Moon Rising

Blue Lake Review

Burning Word

Cavalcade of Stars

CC&D Magazine

Constellations

Contemporary American Voices

Crack the Spine

Dead Snakes

Deep Water Literary Journal

Down in the Dirt

Fiction Week Literary Review

Full of Crow

Glasgow Review of Books

Ink Sweat and Tears

Jacket

Jellyfish Whispers

JMWW

Lothlorien Poetry Journal

Munyori Literary Journal

Napalm And Novocain

Neuro Logical Literary Magazine

New Plains Review

Northern Liberties Review

The Pedestal Magazine

Penwood Review

PoetryRepairs

Pyrokinection

Qutub Minar Review

Rat's Ass Review

Red River Review

Scapegoat Review

Sediments Literary-Arts Journal

Sledgehammer Lit

Storyacious

Subprimal Poetry Art

Terror House Magazine

The Camel Saloon

Third Wednesday

Up The River

Uut Poetry

Vine Leaves Literary Journal

Visceral Uterus

vox poetica

Ygdrasil

Prizes won:

Second place poetry award for "Mountain Confessional" Tennessee Mountain Writers Association, 2021.

Honorable Mention poetry award for "Let Them Go to the Waters" Tennessee Mountain Writers Association, 2022.

First place poetry award George Scarbrough Prize for Poetry for "My Mother's Children," and "Where Have all the Paws Paws Gone" Mountain Heritage Literary Festival, Lincoln Memorial University 2022.

Featured poet 38 poems September1999 Kookamonga Square:

There is Something Here, Human Circumference, I Image, To Her, Ah, English,

Lakota Squash, Bonsai Rock, August, Unsexed Virgin, When In Regard, The Snake Eggs, Sawhain is Gone Now, The Long Millenium, The Garden of Eden et al.

Featured poet December 2013 Poetry Repairs: Of Ford and Entropy; Eve’s Two Choices; Self Emperor; Structure of Mime; Sex and Edgar Alan Poe; Sunday Night; The Postmodern Paradox; After Paradise, Eve’s Lover; Born in 1956; Einstein’s Pleasantville; Paranoia; Stopping by Her Woods on a Rainy Afternoon.

Featured poet June 2014 Poetry Super Highway : Nostalgia.

Featured poet September 2015 Poetry Super Highway: Nostalgia in the Bones.

Featured poet November 2017 Contemporary American Voices: Telegram to Wallace, Walt & Emily; The Girl in the White Dress; The Word; Without a Mirror & The Mountain and the Man.

Editor's Choice Poem of the Month April 2014 Camel Saloon: Blood Moon.

Read online on Poetry Superhighway to an international audience June 2014: Sunday Morning a Century Later: A Homage.

Featured Poet March 2017 Chapbook (e-book 35 poems) Poetry Repairs: Bergman's Island & Other Poems.

Audio Recording In Praise of Spoken Differences Subprimal Poetry: https://subprimal.com/issues/issue4/in-p...

Audio Recording Mission Subprimal Poetry: https://subprimal.com/issues/issue6/miss...

AWARDS

1976, Lincoln Memorial University. First place in creative writing for Poetry in the Sand.

1979, Tennecon, Tennessee Science Fiction Writer's Conference, Knoxville TN. First place, short story: division, for Jensuni Passage.

1983, Southern Writer's Conference, Knoxville, TN. Short fiction award, Second place for Velma, et. al.

1988, Roane State Writing Center Fiction award. First place, The Run. Second place, The Squirrel Gun.

2020, Tennessee Mountain Writers poetry contest. Second place, Mountain Confessional

2021, Tennessee Mountain Writers poetry contest. Honorable Mention Let Them Go to the Waters

2022 First place poetry award George Scarbrough Prize for Poetry for "My Mother's Children," and "Where Have all the Paws Paws Gone" Mountain Heritage Literary Festival, Lincoln Memorial University 2022

Selected as featured poet and poet of the month in various literary journals.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Wallace Stevens; Sylvia Plath; W.B. Yeats; Ernest Hemingway; Harlan Ellison; Robert Silverberg; many, many more.

What I'm reading now:

Until the End of Time by Brian Greene, Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens, Understanding Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Appalachian

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Tennessee

Raised in:

Clairfield, TN

Tennessee

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Last update: Jun 26, 2022