Melinda Thomsen, Poet
Listen to me read with Lisa Molina and Meg Pokrass on Episode 12 of
TERcets, which is a literary podcast by The Ekphrastic Review. Each episode features three pieces selected by the host, Brian Salmons, from the Ekphrastic Review website, ekphrastic.net. melindathomsen.com
megpokrass.com
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Artwork: Planet Set, by Joseph Cornell (USA) 1950. Ekphrastic Writing Challenge, August 20, 2021
"Piñatas"
Here is a discussion of using couplets in poetry by Sheri Fresonke Harper called,
Blank Space in Poems in the Winter 2019 Comstock Review . It appeared on her blog on February 21, 2020, and she discusses my poem "Piñatas!" Thank you, Sheri!
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July 23, 2021
Go to Sledgehammer Literary Review to read this poem. It will also be Forthcoming in Winter 2022: I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe edited by Susana H. Case & Margo Taft Stever from Milk & Cake Press.
"Old Tractor Equipment" North Carolina Literary Review Online 2020, published February 2, 2020. Finalist for the 2019 James Applewhite Poetry Prize.
"Solar System" 2019 Robert Golden Poetry Contest First Place sponsored by Nexus Poets, New Bern, NC, published January 2020.
"Major League Salaries" From Rattle #23, Summer 2005, published online October 12, 2012.
Poetry East #60: Bliss, published Fall 2007 and edited by Richard Jones
"Do I Love Baseball Too Much?" is on p. 48, in this issue.
