Bio for 2020
Melissa Helton lives and teaches in southeast Kentucky, having migrated from Toledo, Ohio a decade ago. Her work has appeared in Still: The Journal, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and more. Her chapbook, Inertia: A Study, was published by Finishing Line Press. She is currently working on two books, one a poetry collection about queer polyamory in Appalachia, and the other a nonfiction global study of women and girls through the international postcard exchange Postcrossing.
Reason for signing up:
I thrive when given a deadline. And we always need more poetry in our lives, yes? ... Yes.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2020 Looking at my House on Google Earth
- June 02, 2020 Amnesia, Burning
- June 03, 2020 Kindergarten
- June 04, 2020 The Shape of What Never Was
- June 05, 2020 Happy Birthday, Breonna Taylor
- June 06, 2020 Life and Death in the Daniel Boone National Forest
- June 07, 2020 For I Will Consider the Tick, the Flea, the Holy Mosquito
- June 08, 2020 Occhiolism
- June 09, 2020 Installations
- June 10, 2020 My Porch as America
- June 12, 2020 Pulse-Loving
- June 14, 2020 Tin Butterfly
- June 15, 2020 Explaining the SCOTUS Ruling to my Queer Kids
- June 16, 2020 Where I’m From
- June 20, 2020 Solstice
- June 24, 2020 Going Through Our Dead Father’s Things on Father’s Day Before Our Mother Dies
- June 27, 2020 Affect / Effect
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