November 30, 2017
A Letter to My Women’s Studies Students
I probably won’t tell you this is up until after I turn in grades. I probably shouldn’t tell you that the grading system itself is archaic and not a measure […]
October 16, 2017
“THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW I GOT TO LIVE”: On Lynn Melnick & Surviving the Landscape
I don’t even know you. Sure, I do the most uncareful things when I’m miles from here. It’s all that freedom I don’t recognize. —Lynn Melnick, “Landscape with […]
October 9, 2017
Unapologetically Stepping In: Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence
I didn’t emerge well-trained into this savage vista because all the houseplants were succulent, and, while anyone could witness rot writ all over my blighted arrangement, no one stepped […]
May 30, 2015
Making (and [the Next]) Generation
This March, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick, was published under the imprint of “Viking Books for Young […]