Publications

POETRY:

  • " why fear words " in Open Minds Quarterly: Your Psychosocial Literary Journal, Vol. 10. No. 3, Fall, 2008.

  • " shatter and free " in Open Minds Quarterly on-line version. June 2008.http://nisa.on.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=305&Itemid=10

  • " illusion,"   " flake," and "offerings," forthcoming in Open Minds Quarterly.

  • Book: gravity loves the body: poems by monika lee, South Western Ontario Poetry Press, 2008.

  • "devotion," "mother is still gone" and "Absolute Music " in Sounding the Seconds: A Canadian Poetry Anthology. Ontario Poetry Society, 2008.

  • "karma cake" in Verse Afire. Vol. 4. No. 1. Winter/Spring, 2008.

  • "circumventing death " in 1097 Magazine.Vol. 49, 2007.

  • "Marrakech" and "quest" in Prairie Journal,Vol. 49, 2007.

  • "a play" in Ottawa Arts Review: The University of Ottawa’s Comprehensive Literary and Arts Journal. Winter, 2007.

  • "plugs" in Big Pond Rumours Vol. 2. No. 1. Winter, 2007

  • "bone dry" in Pittsburgh Quarterly On-line, Autumn, 2007.

  • "foraging" in Blue Skies Poetry. June 2, 2007

  • "country," "spring" and "prophecy: 2" in The Nashwaak Review.Vol. 18/19. No. 1. Spring/Summer, 2007.

  • "body double" forthcoming in Feminist Studies.

  • "minutiae" and "mother's closet" in Room of One's Own:  Celebrating the Best in Women's Literature.  Vol. 29. No. 1, Spring, 2006.

  • "listen" in The Dalhousie Review.  Vol. 8.  No. 1.  Spring, 2006.

  • "Blake 445F" in Harpweaver.  Vol. 13, 2005.  (Winner of the Joan Tovenati Memorial Prize for Poetry, funded by the Canadian Authors' Association).

  • "Ex-patriot" in Ascent Aspirations Magazine Anthology One.  2005.

  • "thea" in Quills: Canadian Poetry Magazine.  Vol.  2.  No.  4, 2005.

  • "meadows of hope," "one jewel" and "song of the soul" in Farsight Magazine, August, 2005.

  • "fertility restored" in Literary Mama: A Literary Magazine for the Maternally Inclined.  2005.  www.literarymama/com/poetry/archives/00474.html.      

  • slender  threads.  Published by HMS Press/Electronic Books in Print, 2004.  ISBN 155253054X.  Canadian Poetry Association webstore.  Contact Monika Lee: mlee5@uwo.ca.

  • "earthbound" in Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal.  Vol.  29, No.  1, Fall, 2004.

  • "prophecy," "samsons all" and "samson was hair-brained" in Christianity and Literature.  Vol.  54, No.  1, Autumn, 2004. 

  • “tangible words” in Event: The Douglas College Review. Vol.  33, No. 1, 2004.

  • “the bathers” in Quills: Canadian Poetry Magazine.  Winter, 2004.

  • "ice shards and blade marks" in The Fiddlehead.  No.  215, Spring 2003.

  • "mother as prof," "living room," and "routine" in The Madwoman in the Academy: 43 Women Boldly Take on the Ivory Tower.  University of Calgary Press, 2003.  (This anthology won an award at the Alberta Book Awards, 2004).

  • "release" in Ariel: A Review of International English Literature.  Vol. 32.  No. 1, April, 2001.

  • "the second coming" in Christianity and Literature.  Vol. 51, No. 3, Spring 2002.

  • "come home" and “ninth month” in Qwerty.  Vol.  2, No.  2, 2001.

  • "stuffed bears" in The Plowman.  Vol.  11, No.  1, 2000.

  • "sun, pines and prophecy" in Canadian Woman Studies: les cahiers de la femme.  Vol.  20, No.  1, Spring 2000.

  • "homebirth" in Midwifery Today.  No.  53, March 2000.

  • "the woman with the empty bowl" in Antigonish Review.  No.  116, Winter 1999.

  • "prayer for fertility" in Writing for Our Lives.  Vol.  8, 1999.

  • "telegram" in Life Love Death and A Side Order of Poetry.  Ed.  Penny Ferguson, Toronto:  Hidden Brook Press, 1999.

  • "doll hospital" in Tower Poetry.  Vol.  47.  No.  2, Winter 1998-99.

  • "a mother's dying" in Canadian Literature.  Vol. 156, Spring 1998.

  • "Capital Gains" in Canadian Dimension.  Vol.  31.  No.  5, Autumn 1997.

  • "Indwelling" in Strong Winds.  Ed.  Sheila Hyland.  Fredericton:  Broken Jaw Press,1997.

  • "piano" in Amber.  1997.

  • "woman's body" in Nomad’s Choir.  Vol.  5.  No.  3.  Summer 1997.

  • "Dying Poems" in Beneath the Surface.  Vol.  13.  No.  2, Spring, 1997.

  • "Television" in Women’s Education des Femmes.  Vol.  12, No.  4, Winter 96-97.

  • "Record Lows" in Canadian Dimension.  Vol.  31:1 Jan.-Feb.  1997.

  • "Mind forged Manacles" in Skylark.  Vol.  XXV, 1996.

  • "First Warm Day" in Riverrun. Fall, 1996.

  • "Postmodern" in Ecks: The Creative Variable. January, 1996.

  • "There must be a poem" in Opening Up the World.  1995.  

  • "There must be a poem," “Outdoors,” “Indwelling,” and “Birds are Flying Towards Me” in Poets’ Podium.  December, 1995.

  • "Julian the Magician" and “Trees” in Afterthoughts.  Autumn, 1995.

  • "My Love Asleep" in Afterthoughts. Summer, 1995.  (Second-place winner in poetry contest).

  • "So Other," “Flying, Fading,” “The Garden,” “Inside,” “Your Departure,” and “To My Cat Jasmine” in Afterthoughts.  Spring, 1995.

POETRY BOOK REVIEWS:

  • Review of Stephen Collis’ Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry/Anarchy/Abstraction, in vallum:
        contemporary poetry
  • Review of Paul Auster’s Collected Poems in vallum: contemporary poetry. Vol. 4. No. 1. 2006: (71-72).
  • Review of Kevin Connolly’s drift in vallum: contemporary poetry. Vol. 4. No. 1. 2006: (73-75).
  • A book review of Jane Satterfield’s Assignation At Vanishing Point in The Journal for the Association of Research on Mothering.
        Vol. 6, No.2. Fall/Winter 2004.

    • OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN POETIC CRITICISM:

    • " Rhythm, Rekenning, Resistance: Dennis Lee's Sussing Out Meaning from (Un)words in Yesno " in vallum: contemporary poetry. 5.2, 2007: 37-41.  

    • " A Vindication of Single Motherhood in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall " in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 2008  

    • Rousseau’s Impact on Shelley: Figuring the Written Self.  Romantic Reassessment, Vol. 154.  Salzburg Studies in Literature, Lewiston: 1999.

    • "Diary and Extended Koan:  The Sacred Text of Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing,"  in Vallum:  Contemporary   Poetry. 4:2 / 5:1, 2007: (51-56).  

    • " Revolutionary Sexuality in Blake and Shelley,”" in And Never Know the Joy: Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry.   Ed.  Cedric Barfoot. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006: (189-206)   Amsterdam:  Rodopi, 2005.

    • “Meaning in Silence:  Re-interpreting Shelley Biography” in Mapping the Self: Space, Identity, Discourse in British Auto/Biography (refereed conference proceedings) Ed. Fréderic Regard. Publications de l'Université de St. Etienne, 2003: (173-185).   2003: (173-185)

    • “Mother as Prometheus” in Madwoman in the Academy.  University of Calgary Press, 2003:(31-35) (Madwoman in the Academy won Best Scholarly Book of the Year at the 2004 Alberta Book Awards).

    • "Northrop Frye and Shelley's `A Defence of Poetry': A Theory of Synchronicity."  in The Legacy of Northrop Frye. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994:  190-200.   

      • "Oral Conceptions of Truth in Fourteenth-Century English Poetry."  Essays In Literature.  21 (1994): 152-65.

    • "`Nature's Silent Eloquence':  Disembodied Language in Shelley's Queen Mab."  Nineteenth-Century Literature.  48 (1993):  169-93.

    • "`Some Lone Ghost, Nature's Messenger': Rousseau and Organic Language in Shelley's Alastor."  English Studies in Canada.  19 (December, 1993):  417-38.

    • Canadian Poetry:  Studies, Documents, Reviews: An Index for Volumes 1-10. May, 1993  May, 1993.

    • Editorial Assistant for Canadian Poetry:  Studies, Documents, Reviews.  No. 24, Spring/Summer, 1989.  

    READINGS:

    • Sept. 10, 2008. Book launch of gravity loves the body with public reading hosted by South Western Ontario Poetry and Brescia University College, Merici Lounge, Brescia.

    • June 4, 2008. Poetry Reading for Myanmar Cyclone and Chinese Earthquake Fundraiser, Alex P. Keaton’s, London, Ontario. Also M.C. for Poetry Reading.

    • Oct. 26th, 2006. The milky way and other poems  part of the Gala Literary Evening for the Motherlode Conference of the Association for Research on Mothering.

    • June 14, 2006.  Landon Library, Canadian Poetry Association Book Launch.

    • April 25, 2006.  Art Bar Series in Toronto.

    • Nov. 27, 2005.  Forest City Gallery, London.  Harmonia Press Book Launch.

    • Sept. 28, 2005.  Forest City Gallery, London.  Poets at the Podium Series.

    • May 9, 2005.  Launch of slender threads at Brescia University College.

    • Jan. 14, 2005.  Mocambopo House in Victoria, B.C.

    • Feb. 13, 2003.  The Circle, a women's spirituality group in London, Ontario. 

    • June 21, 1996.  Cross Cultural Learner Centre in London, Canadian Poetry Association.

    • Sept. 20, 1995.  Cross Cultural Learner Centre in London for the CPA.

    • April, 1995.  London New Arts Festival.

    • Nov. 15, 1995.  Canadian Poetry Association's book launch of The Invisible Accordion, an event partly televised by Roger's Cable 13.

    • Feb. 12, 1996.  Ecks magazine launch at "Extra Virgin".

    • Associate Member of the League of Canadian Poets.

    • Member of the Canadian Poetry Association.

      • ESSAYS:

    • " Animate Perceptions" in Canadian Literature.

    • " Rhythm, Rekenning, Resistance: Dennis Lee’s Sussing Out Meaning from (Un)words in Yesno " in vallum: contemporary poetry.   Vol. 5. No. 2. 2007: (37-41).

    • "Diary and Extended Koan: The Sacred Text of Leonard Cohen’s Book of Longing," in vallum: contemporary poetry, 4.2/5.1, Spring, 2007.

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