Video:

Watch and listen to Melanie reading her poetry in an interview with the Marin County Library video series on poetry:  https://tinyurl.com/h6vwofq

Published Poems

Poems published in reviews, anthologies, journals and the press.

“Place of Honor”  convolvulus Fall 1995

“Off Shore”  Poetalk (Bay Area Poets’ Coalition)
Autumn 2001

“Grandmother’s House”  New Mirage Quarterly
December 2001

“Prayer”  Poetalk (Bay Area Poets’ Coalition) Winter 2001

“Visiting Terezin, September 11, 2001”  The Marin Arts Council Members’ Literary Review, 2002

“The Land of Us”  Poetic License January 2002

“What Am I Doing Here?”  Poetic License July 2002

“Reveille”  Poetic License August 2002

“Last Journal”  Poetic License September 2002

“The Women”  Poetic License October 2002

“Landscape”  An Anthology from “Creating A New Personal Mythology:  A Poetry  Workshop” 2002

“Buddha”  An Anthology from “Creating A New Personal Mythology:  A Poetry Workshop” 2002

“There Was An Old Woman…”  An Anthology from “Creating A New Personal Mythology:  A Poetry Workshop” 2002

“I return in Spring”  An Anthology from “Creating A New Personal Mythology:  A Poetry Workshop” 2002

“Worship at Euromos”  Marin Poetry Center Anthology Volume 8, 2005

“Nicolai, July 2004”  Marin Poetry Center Anthology Volume 8, 2005

“San Fruttuoso”  Marin Poetry Center Anthology Volume 8, 2005

“Interview with a Former Janitor”  The Janitor at Radio City Music HallConflux Press 2005

“High Heels”  Cloud View PoetsAn Anthology:  Master Classes with David St. John pub. 2005

“Last Jew of Oswiecim”  Drash Spring/Summer 2007, Volume 1 (Inaugural Issue)

“When I am Old” online journal In Posse Review July 2008

“Old Apple Eaters” online journal In Posse Review July 2008

“Dear Young Man”  Gazeta Wyborcza  2008

“Becky”  RiverSedge Volume 22:2, Fall 2009

“Swimming Lessons” Phoebe Volume 21 #2, Fall 2009

“Botswana”  The South Carolina Review Volume 42, Number 1 (Fall 2009)

“Bingen Am Rhine”  The Fourth River Issue 6 Autumn 2009

“Fireflies”  Eureka Literary Magazine Volume 19, No. 2 2009

“November”  Pennsylvania English Vol. 31 Numbers 1 & 2 Fall 2008, Spring 2009

“Doctor Alex Stone”  Southern California ReviewVolume III, No. 1, May 2010   

“February”  limestone 2010

“Tale Of A Golem”  Slipstream press issue #31 2011

“Gumballs”   Spillway 19 December 2012 issue

“One Mother’s Day” Marin Poetry Center Anthology Vol. XVI: 2013