This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
International poet; Melanie Simms has published in several newspapers, ezines and journals including The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Zuz's Petals, Splizz (Wales), 3 Cup Morning (Canada) among many others.
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Influenced by Romantic Era poets; mentored by poets Gary Young, David Swanger and John Taggart.
My poetry is motivated by the search for truth about love, pain, and loss as well as the ever important qualities that maintain social bonding and cohesion.
Birth Place
Hartford, CT United States
Accomplishments
Poet Laureate of Perry County, PA
President/Founder of the Association of Pennsylvania Poets Laureate
Vermont Writers Studio Scholarship recipient
University Honorarium for Poetry (Shippensburg University)
Several press coverages, radio and newspaper interviews
President, Shippensburg University poetry
Contact Information
Poet Melanie Simms
moonspinner@pa.net PO Box 433
Liverpool PA 17045
United States
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