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Gladys Henderson’s poems have been published in Kaleidoscope, Oberon, Long Island Dreams, For Love Of Precious Beast, Midwestern University Quarterly, Long Island Sounds, The Light of City and Sea, Robert Frost Participant Anthologies, Performance Poets Anthologies, and Lyrismos. In addition, her poems have been selected to appear in Songs Of Seasoned Women, PAUMANOK: Poetry and Pictures of Long Island and Primal Sanities. Her first book of poetry, Eclipse Of Heaven will be published by Finishing Line Press and will be available in 2008.
An award winning poet, in 2004 she was awarded first prize in the Live Poets, Mid-Island YJCC, and Ronkonkoma Productions poetry competitions. In 2005 she won first place in the Farmingdale Poetry Group and Performance Poetry competitions. For the year 2006, she received first place in the Ronkonkoma Productions competition and most recently she was announced as a finalist for the Paumanok Poetry Award 2006.
She runs poetry workshops for Live Poets, based in Islip and the Poets Circle at the Graphic Eye in Port Washington and co-hosts a poetry reading venue at the Cool Beanz coffee house in Saint James, New York.