Little Pockets of Glow is now available!
Debut poetry collection from award-winning Boston-area poet Melinda Coppola
A poetic journey through the rocky wonderland of special needs parenting, this collection offers glimpses into the challenges and joys of raising a child with autism, OCD, and unique needs. Both uplifting and moving, the poems speak to caregivers, parents, teachers, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of resilience, love, and the “little pockets of glow” that illuminate life’s path.
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- Saturday, November 1st, 2 p.m. – Dedham Community House. View more information here.
POETRY
Rinsing Blueberries
First Place Winner, The 2025 Heart Poetry Award
My full-length collection,
Little Pockets of Glow,
is now available!
Mother , Unbroken, and Thank you, Tedium
The Heart of Us Anthology 2025
For Bodies That Heal
Massachusetts Poetry Bards Anthology 2025
When my warm flesh
Harrow House Journal 2025
Breaking News About Shoes
Knee Brace Press 2025
Aureole and Long Time
Soul Poetry, Prose and Arts magazine 2025
Circuitry, Between, and All in Due Time
Trash to Treasure Lit March 2025
The Animist in the Basement
Moonday Magazine 2025
More
MA Poetry Bards Anthology 2024
Half Full and Listen
Last Stanza Poetry Journal Fall 2024
Turning Point, What not to do while decluttering, Yesterday My Mother Died Again, To the Elementary Teacher Who Caused her Harm, and Father’s Day
The Turning Leaf Journal June 2024
Inheritance and What You Mean
Mutha Magazine May 2024
Honeymoon
Last Stanza Poetry Journal April 2024
Falling
New Feathers Anthology April 2024
Farther
Metonym Literary Journal 2024
Stay
Anti-Heroin Chic 2023
Undone
Barnstorming 11/13/23
Grandma Moses and the Color Wheel
Last Stanza Poetry Journal October 2023
Hush
Amethyst Review in June 2023
Unbroken
Last Stanza Poetry Journal 2023
Nobody
Thimble Literary Magazine 2022
The Color of Swans
Slack Satori this poem won the Moon Prize 9/10/22
Sorry
Walking
Night Upon the Prairie
The Shift
Writing in a Woman’s Voice 2022
Life Cycle of a Day
Poem to To My Young Self
Willows Wept Review Fall 2022
Not Now
Available
Anti-Heroin Chic 2022
Mercy
Saved
Seeing Through
One Art: A Journal of Poetry 2022
Tenure
Third Wednesday Magazine 2022
Hawk
Mercy
Rocking
Auroras and Blossoms 2021
Reset
Lone Stars Magazine 2019
What I Meant When I Said No
Screaming from the Silence Anthology 2019
Your Repose
Night Graces
Vitamin ZZZ: Forty Winks 2018
My Calling
Between Faith and the Cable News
I Come From the World 2017
7 AM
Autismville (winner, Reader’s Choice Award)
Your Repose
The Poet Says This is How You Should See
Seeing Through
The Bus Stop Moms
All in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review 2017-2018
Your Own Dance
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Raising Kids on the Spectrum
2013
Other People’s Children
The Way You Show Joy
Letting Grow
Press 53 Anthology 2010
Let Your Yoga
When
Say Yes
Moments of the Soul anthology 2010
The Way You Show Joy
Kaleidoscope Magazine 2003
As If
Harpur Palate 2002
Miscarriage
Welcome Home Magazine 1998
Sleep Hair
Welcome Home Magazine 1996
ESSAY
Remembering Tina
Celebrations 2007
Honoring You
Celebrations 2006
Simple Things
The Autism Perspective Magazine 2005