MEGAN MUNGER

recognition

• Baby Blue, Poetry Chapbook Contest Finalist, The Tusculum Review, July 2026. https://ttr.tusculum.edu/.
• Teacher-Student-Teacher Poetry Reading, Pittsburg Public Library, April 2024. https://morningsun.net/news/local-news/three-generations-of-teachers/.

Read

• “Teaching Persona.” Unleash Literary, April 2026. https://www.unleashlit.com/p/teaching-persona-by-megan-munger.
• “Wishing Well.” Epistemic Literary, September 2025. https://epistemiclit.com/past-issues/issue-six/wishing-well/.
• “Love Never Saved Anything.” The Paddock Review, July 2025. https://paddockreview.com/2025/07/08/a-poem-by-megan-munger/.
• “The Pulling.” The Closed Eye Open, May 2025. https://theclosedeyeopen.com/issue-xiii/.
• “Dad Explains Forgiveness on Our Drive Home.” Hawaii Pacific Review, May 2025. https://hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/04/24/dad-explains-forgiveness-on-our-drive-home/.
• “Color Me Happy.” “December Evaluation: Dissatisfactory.” Porcupine Literary, February 2025. https://www.porcupineliterary.com/post/color-me-happy.
• “A Wish for Contentment.” Tipton Poetry Journal, December 2024. Print.
• “Reconsider.” Choeofpleirn Press, October 2024. Print. Reprinted in Best of Choeofpleirn Press, December 2024.
• “Final Performance as Pittsburg State University’s Feature Twirler.” “Returning to the Scene.” Of Our Own Accord: Women’s Embodied Poetry, Flying Ketchup Press, July 2024. Print.
• “The Trajectory of Trauma Therapy as a Series of Haiku.” Kitchen Table Quarterly, October 2023. https://www.kitchentablequarterly.org/munger-trauma-therapy-haiku.
• “Ars Poetica: Resuscitation.” “Fishing.” The Coop: A Poetry Cooperative, February 2023. https://150kansaspoems.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/two-poems-by-megan-munger/.