Melanie McCabe
Melanie McCabe is the author of three collections of poems, most recently The Night Divers (Terrapin Books), which was a finalist for the 2023 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Her memoir, His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams, won the University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize. Her poems and essays appear in the Washington Post, the Georgia Review, the Threepenny Review, Shenandoah, the Massachusetts Review, and many other journals.
Reading List
Convalescent Summer
It was a summer under glass. Summer in a snow globe, shaken dapples of sunlight instead of flakes. Summer, fragile on a knickknack shelf. The birds seemed animatronic; cock of bead-eyed head, every wing ruffle, contrived. Artful contrails swirled across my windowed blue. An arrangement of cumulus. Piped in: the drone of lawns […]
HIS OTHER LIFE: Searching for My Father, His First Wife and Tennessee Williams
At night in bed, waiting for sleep to make my mind stop chasing itself, I began praying to Hazel Kramer. Well, not exactly praying. More like bargaining. More like begging. Let me tell your story, I said to her. Let …