Melissa Crowe
Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). Her work appears or is forthcoming in Four Way Review, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, and Thrush, among other journals, and she was awarded the 2021 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She’s the coordinator of the MFA program at University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she teaches poetry and publishing.
Reading List
Epithalamium with Empty Nest
Tonight, in bed, we hear the frogs that just emerge somehow when ditches fill with rain outside our house. Sounds like a chorus of coffee-counter men grumbling for a refill. To our ears, at least—to theirs, who knows, seduction? A way to find another frog that’s crawled through dirt to find himself immersed in water, […]