 Most recently (March 2011) Gloria Oden published "Homage" which she describes as a praise song for the small black churches across America at slavery's end, congregations earnest in their pursuit of the rights and privileges of democracy, of which Memorial AMEZ of Yonkers was an example.Three poems were published in "Inertia Magazine" in 2008.Since 1996, when she retired from UMBC, she has been living in Catonsville, Maryland.