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Mihaela Moscaliuc, Ph.D., professor of English and graduate program director at Monmouth University, is the co-editor of a newly released poetry anthology, \u201cFruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems<\/a>,\u201d published by Penguin Random House as part of the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series. The volume brings together 154 contemporary and classic poems from various continents and cultures that celebrate fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, and spices, and their meaning in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscaliuc collaborated with celebrated poet Michael Waters, a longtime Monmouth professor who retired in 2020, to assemble the collection. Zafira Demiri \u201924, a graduate student pursuing her master\u2019s degree in English, provided research assistance.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published by one of the world\u2019s leading literary houses, the anthology underscores Penguin Random House\u2019s continuing commitment to poetry of lasting cultural importance. Moscaliuc and Waters co-edited a previous collection, \u201cBorder Lines: Poems of Migration<\/a>,\u201d published in Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The anthology serves an homage to the earth and a reminder of our responsibilities to tend it. As Moscaliuc and Waters suggest in the introduction, \u201cthrough its bounty of fruits, vegetables, grains, and culinary herbs and spices, the earth has given us a home in [our] exile\u201d from a divine existence, and might continue to do so for as long as we care for it.\u201d  From an editor\u2019s perspective, any anthology is a labor of love, Moscaliuc says, and this one in particular arose from a commitment to act on that awe which we experience in our presence on earth, as well as from the accompanying sense of helplessness in the face of destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscaliuc\u2019s scholarship and creative work often explore transnational and ecopoetic perspectives. She is the author or editor of several acclaimed poetry collections and volumes of literary translation, and she recently received a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her poem \u201cApril 2020\u201d received a Pushcart Prize and appears in \u201c2026 Pushcart Prize L<\/a>.\u201d Last year she was awarded a Pushcart for non-fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waters\u2019 honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as five Pushcart Prizes. He is the author of 14 books of published poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscaliuc and Waters will present a reading and discussion of \u201cFruits of the Earth\u201d at Frenchtown Bookshop, in Frenchtown, New Jersey, on Nov. 18<\/a> at 6:30 p.m. The event, part of the shop\u2019s Visiting Poets Series, is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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