Local Poet Gloria Mindock will be presented with the Sam Cornish Award this coming Sunday, August 11.

Somerville Poet, Gloria Mindock, will be honored with the Sam Cornish award at the Longfellow House – Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site on Sunday, August 11, at  3:00 p.m.

Mindock is editor of Červená Barva Press and an award-winning author of six poetry collections and three chapbooks. Her poems have been published and translated into eleven languages. Her recent book, Grief Touched the Sky at Night (Glass Lyre Press, 2023), won the International Impact Award, the Speak-up Talk Radio International Firebird Award and the Independent Press Award. Mindock’s book ASH (Glass Lyre Press, 2021) won several book awards and was translated into Serbian by Milutin Durickovic and published by Alma Press in Belgrade in 2022. At the Winter’s Gate, La Portile Raiului, was translated into Romanian by Flavia Cosma and published by Ars Longo Press in Romania.

Mindock has numerous publications including Ibbetson, Gargoyle, The James Dickey Review, Growth: Journal of Literature, Culture, & Art (Macedonia), KGB Lit, to name just a few. Mindock was the Poet Laureate in Somerville, MA in 2017 and 2018.

The Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public.

Sunday, August 11, at 3:00 p.m.. Presented by the New England Poetry Club and Longfellow House – Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA.