A Prayer
Reading in Minneapolis
If you’re going to the AWP Conference this year in Minneapolis, I hope you will join Tiferet Journal for a wonderful reading at Magers & Quinn Booksellers. Saturday, April 11 at 2 pm.
Readers include Melissa Studdard, Amy King, Aliki Barnstone, Alexander Cigale, Therese Halscheid, Barrett Warner, Tony Barnstone, @Willis Barnstone, Diane Bonavist, and Donna Baier Stein. Hope to see you there!
Melissa Studdard is on Facebook and Twitter. She writes on Johntext Texas. Visit her personal homepage www.melissastuddard.com and find out about events and her books and contact her on http://melissastuddard.com/contact/ More information is available on Wikipedia.
Integrating the Shadow
My Poem And The Film
I am Snoopy-happy-dance excited to announce that the title poem from I Ate the Cosmos for breakfast has been selected by Motionpoems to be made into a film! More details soon…
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Rediscovering the Love for Writing
I’m delighted to share this excerpt from my lovely conversation with Catherine Lu at Houston Public Media. Huge thanks to Houston Matters for airing it.
Houston Poet Melissa Studdard Discusses Rediscovering Her Love for Writing
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Farming Blog
Photo by Alistar Harris
This morning I opened a Google alert to find that this gorgeous farming blog (The Farming Life) had shared my poem “I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast” as part of an inspiring photo essay about their farm. They also quoted an answer I gave Okla Elliott for the magazine “As It Ought To Be”.
I love this farm (Origins) and everything they stand for–sustainability, health, love, service. And seeing farming and poetry come together like this, well, it feeds my heart…
http://originsfarm.com/this-farming-life-2-13-15/
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A SPUR IN THE RIBS OF MY LOVE-COLORED MAP by Melissa Studdard
A SPUR IN THE RIBS OF MY LOVE-COLORED MAP by Melissa Studdard, in the latest issue of Eleven Eleven.
“Eleven Eleven is a biannual journal of literature and art published through the MFA Writing program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The aim of the publication is to provide a forum for risk and experimentation and to serve as an exchange between writers and artists.”
http://elevenelevenjournal.com/2014/12/03/melissa-studdard
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Americanmicroreviews
My sentiments exactly: Poems have feelings too. Thank you, Wesley Rothman, for this bold, informed, complex reading of Cosmos.
http://www.americanmicroreviews.com/i-ate-the-cosmos-for-breakfast-by-melissa-studdard
Melissa Studdard is on Facebook and Twitter. She writes on Johntext Texas. Visit her personal homepage www.melissastuddard.com and find out about events and her books and contact her on http://melissastuddard.com/contact/ More information is available on Wikipedia.
Life and Legends
I’m thrilled to have poems in the second issue of the exciting new journal, Life and Legends, which seeks to build a bridge between east and west. The issue contains a fantastic editorial by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis and is a feast of interviews, translations, poems and ekphrastic responses. So many of my favorite writers are in this issue! Special thanks also to Guest Editor Jennifer Reeser.
http://lifeandlegends.com/inaugural-issue/life-legend-2/
Melissa Studdard is on Facebook and Twitter. She writes on Johntext Texas. Visit her personal homepage www.melissastuddard.com and find out about events and her books and contact her on http://melissastuddard.com/contact/ More information is available on Wikipedia.