Teaching /Editing
Upcoming course:
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Current Course:
Reigniting the Spark: Establishing Poetic Practice In the New Year
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Past Courses:
The Power of Food Imagery in Poetry
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Courses with Redbud Writing Project:
Intro to Poetry
Intro to Micro Fiction
Poetry Workshop
Poetry 2
Eco-Poetry
Memoir 1
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Email me for availability and info about private poetry editing.
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​Testimonials:
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"When I'm drafting a poem, Melanie is my first and best reader. She sees my work with tremendous precision, unafraid to carve away the inessential. Maybe more importantly: she listens to the poem itself, not her own aesthetic preferences. Which is why she so effectively guides a poem towards its truest, most complicated shape. And she does all this with a gentleness that leaves me energized. She's the real thing."
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- Josh Tvrdy author of Smut Psalm from Button Press
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"Her feedback and guidance were so valuable to me, I will take so much of what she said with me. The poems she compiled for us to read, the poets she suggested we should look into, workshop time leading right into prompted writing time, everything about this class felt both intentional and organic. I loved every minute, and genuinely looked forward to Sundays every day of the week. I feel like this class helped me remember important things about myself."
- Hannah Keeton (Took Poetry 2 with Redbud Writing Project)
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"The mind acts, the mind wills a poem, often against our own will; somehow this happens, somehow a poem gets written in the middle of a chaotic holiday party that has just run out of ice, and it’s your house." - Mary Ruefle, "On Beginnings"