Melissa Parrish

tonight!

Pages That Sing - The Massachusetts Review What is poetry? What is voice? These are the questions that editors Philip Brady and Shanta Lee ask in Sign and Breath: Voice and the Literary Tradition, a wide-ranging new poetic anthology published ...

"All the poets in SIGN & BREATH create entanglements in which voices can be made more fully heard, visible, animated, complicated, and thus more grieveable... the very thing that makes us addressable."

Melissa Parrish, reviewing SIGN & BREATH: massreview.org/2025/10/23/p...

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Contemporaries is (are?) in the midst of painful separation from Xitter, which was for years our main way of sharing clusters and podcasts, so in the interregnum we really appreciate any kind of signal boost for the amazing work we platform. We’re now on 20 episodes of Pod45 and 60+ essay clusters!

Book workshop group picture.

Writing a book?

Here's what I've learned about book workshops, in case it can help you.

(Thanks to Whitney Hegseth, @melissaparrish.bsky.social, Kyle Cook, @profemily09.bsky.social, and Alexa Riobueno-Naylor for participating in my book workshop.)