Crowe, Melissa M
Assistant Professor
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Crowe, Melissa M
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor, Creative Writing , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
- Graduate Coordinator, Creative Writing , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts 2017-01-01 -
Publications
Selected Publications
Article
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| 2016-01-01 | "Caro Nome”.
PoemMemoirStory (renamed Nelle in 2018).
2016-01-01
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| 2014-09-01 | “Bodies of Water".
Literary Mama.
2014-09-01
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Book
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| 2023-05-01 | Lo.
University of Iowa Press.
2023-05-01
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| 2019-02-01 | Dear Terror, Dear Splendor.
University of Wisconsin Press.
2019-02-01
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| 2013-12-01 | Girl, Giant.
Finishing Line Press.
2013-12-01
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| 2008-04-01 | Cirque du Crève-Cœur.
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2008-04-01
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Document
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| 2023-07-01 | "In the Other Universe, I have a Bear Tattoo".
Passages North .
2023-07-01
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| 2023-03-01 | "The Thing Itself".
Image.
2023-03-01
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| 2022-07-01 | "Often in Dreams She Was My Girlfriend Until I Remembered, Still Asleep, That It Wasn't Okay".
Sugar House Review .
2022-07-01
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| 2022-07-01 | "Thrownness".
Poetry Northwest.
2022-07-01
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| 2022-07-01 | "When I Was Afraid”.
Sugar House Review.
2022-07-01
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| 2022-05-01 | "Benediction for Lovers at Midlife".
Asheville Poetry Review .
2022-05-01
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| 2022-05-01 | "Dear Uncle".
Asheville Poetry Review .
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2022-05-01
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| 2022-04-01 | "But Nothing Bad Ever Happened to Me in the Woods".
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2022-04-01
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| 2022-04-01 | "Poem Written While My Friend Has Bone Marrow Harvested for Stem Cells".
Crab Creek Review .
2022-04-01
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| 2022-02-01 | "I want to tell you what poverty gave me--" (reprint).
Poetry Daily .
2022-02-01
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| 2021-12-01 | "When She Speaks of the Fire".
Los Angeles Review.
2021-12-01
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| 2021-11-01 | I want to tell you what poverty gave me—".
New England Review.
2021-11-01
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| 2021-09-01 | "Epithalamium with Empty Nest".
Shenandoah.
1.
2021-09-01
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| 2021-06-01 | "Elegy in Quarantine".
The Rupture .
2021-06-01
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| 2021-06-01 | "General Absolution".
The Rupture .
2021-06-01
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| 2021-06-01 | "Lo".
The Rupture.
2021-06-01
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| 2021-04-01 | "Poem Written the Day Before the Pandemic Brings Our Kid Home from Europe Unexpectedly".
Mom Egg Review.
2021-04-01
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| 2021-04-01 | “I’ll tell you what helped".
Nelle.
2021-04-01
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| 2021-01-01 | “Lessons".
Water Stone Review.
2021-01-01
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| 2020-11-01 | "Epithalamium with Paper Bell".
Four Way Review .
2020-11-01
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| 2020-11-01 | Two Poems.
Four Way Review.
2020-11-01
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| 2020-09-01 | "America you're breaking".
The Shore.
2020-09-01
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| 2020-09-01 | “I cry each time we say goodbye because I know I’m always sending you to war”.
The Shore Poetry .
2020-09-01
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| 2020-07-01 | "Benediction with Foundlings".
Tupelo Quarterly .
2020-07-01
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| 2020-07-01 | "Epithalamium with Inventory".
Thrush.
2020-07-01
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| 2020-07-01 | "Little Deprivation in the Big North Woods".
POETRY.
2020-07-01
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| 2020-05-01 | "Poet loves hunter though she’ll eat no meat".
Adroit Journal.
2020-05-01
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| 2020-01-01 | "When We’re in Bed and You Take out Your Mouth Guard, I Know It’s On".
Academy of American Poets.
2020-01-01
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| 2019-06-01 | "Say”.
Tupelo Quarterly.
2019-06-01
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| 2019-06-01 | "The Parting".
Baltimore Review.
2019-06-01
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| 2018-11-01 | "Mourning Portrait for Uncle Steve”.
Nelle.
2018-11-01
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| 2018-09-01 | "Some Say the World".
Glass: A Journal of Poetry.
2018-09-01
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| 2018-05-01 | "Waiting Song with Dioramas,” “One Reason to Stay,” and “Skydiver".
Connotation Press.
2018-05-01
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| 2018-04-01 | "Damage".
Literary Mama.
2018-04-01
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| 2018-04-01 | "Nom de Guerre".
The Florida Review.
2018-04-01
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| 2018-01-01 | "A Laying On of Hands".
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2018-01-01
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| 2017-10-01 | "Dear Terror, Dear Splendor".
The Shallow Ends.
2017-10-01
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| 2016-11-01 | "Forgiftet Garden” and “Still Life with Geese and Oxycontin".
The Boiler.
2016-11-01
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| 2015-11-01 | "Shadowed in Sunstruck Fields".
Beloit Poetry Journal.
2015-11-01
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| 2015-10-01 | "Instead of Prayer".
Atlanta Review.
2015-10-01
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| 2015-10-01 | "Southbound Epithalamium".
The Cortland Review.
2015-10-01
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| 2015-07-01 | “New Wine,” essay review of Sandy Longhorn’s The Alchemy of My Mortal Form and Bradford Tice’s What the Night Numbered.
Beloit Poetry Journal.
2015-07-01
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| 2015-06-01 | "New Wine".
Beloit Poetry Journal.
2015-06-01
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| 2015-01-01 | “Shadowed in Sunstruck Fields,” essay review of Vievee Francis’s Forest Primeval and J. Scott Brownlee’s Requiem for Used Ignition Cap.
Beloit Poetry Journal.
2015-01-01
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| 2014-10-01 | “Things to Keep,” essay review of Emilia Phillip’s Signaletics and Jamaal May’s Hum.
Beloit Poetry Journal.
2014-10-01
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| 2014-09-01 | "Things to Keep".
Beloit Poetry Journal,.
2014-09-01
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| 2013-11-01 | Meanwhile.
Asheville Poetry Review.
2013-11-01
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| 2013-07-01 | Elegy for Michael and the Sea.
The Café Review.
2013-07-01
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| 2013-07-01 | “What Ghosts Know,” essay review of Cole Swensen’s Gravesend and Traci Brimhall’s Our Lady of the Ruins.
Beloit Poetry Journal.
2013-07-01
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| 2012-05-01 | Epithalamium with Humming Bird.
Maine Magazine.
2012-05-01
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| 2012-04-01 | Love Song with Vehophobia.
Lumina.
2012-04-01
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| 2011-04-01 | This River.
Words and Images.
2011-04-01
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| 2009-10-01 | “Poker Night,” “Postnatal Epithalamium,” “Love Song to a Cashier,” “Epithalamium with Captives,” and “The end of summer, the fall of the year,.
From East to West: Bicoastal Verse.
2009-10-01
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| 2009-07-01 | Review of Lee Sharkey’s A Darker, Sweeter String.
The Café Review.
2009-07-01
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| 2009-04-01 | Epithalamium with Acrobats.
The Café Review.
2009-04-01
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| 2009-04-01 | “Girl Giant,” “Epithalamium with Adultery,” and “These Two Eleanors,”.
Words and Images.
2009-04-01
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| 2009-01-01 | Orphan Looks a Gift Horse in the Mouth (or Why I Want to Quit the Circus).
Clementine.
2009-01-01
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| 2009-01-01 | Presque Isle is Pentimento.
Echoes.
2009-01-01
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| 2007-09-01 | Labor Aubade.
Crab Orchard Review.
2007-09-01
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| 2007-05-01 | Stabat Mater Dolorosa.
Seneca Review.
2007-05-01
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| 2007-04-01 | Old Man and Nurse.
Atlanta Review.
2007-04-01
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| 2005-10-01 | Scholarly Review of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel.
The Georgia Review.
2005-10-01
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| 2004-10-01 | Review of Beth Ann Fennelly’s Tender Hooks.
The Georgia Review.
2004-10-01
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| 2003-10-01 | Etching.
Lifeboat: A Journal of Memoir.
2003-10-01
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| 2003-07-01 | I Watch Nature While Breastfeeding.
Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women.
2003-07-01
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| 2003-04-01 | Bruise.
Crab Orchard Review.
2003-04-01
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Presentations
- Invited Reading at Poetry Society of South Carolina, Poetry Society of South Carolina 2023-09-09
- Invited Reading at Central Michigan University, Invited Reading at Central Michigan University 2023-09-01
- Invited Reading at Punch Bucket Lit Reading Series, Punch Bucket Lit Reading Series 2023-06-20
- Invited Reading at Gaithersburg Book Festival, Gaithersburg Book Festival 2023-05-20
- City Feet, Swamp Mouths: A Louisiana Regional Offsite Reading at AWP 2023-03-08
- The Pocket Epic: Poets Writing at Length, AWP 2023-03-01
- Breed A Needle, NC Writers’ Network Fall Conference 2022-11-19
- Featured/Faculty Reader, NC Writers’ Network Fall Conference 2022-11-19
- Line Breaks Workshop, South Carolina Poetry Society 2022-09-10
- Invited Reading at Crab Creek Review Spring 2022 Issue Release Reading, Crab Creek Review Spring 2022 Issue Release Reading 2022-06-01
- Featured writer (reading, craft talk, panel), 20th anniversary Emerging Writers Festival 2022-04-01
- A Form for What Haunts You: Using Fixed Forms to Write About Trauma, AWP 2022 2022-03-24
- Landing the Academic Job: Tips from the Search Committee, AWP 2022 2022-03-24
- Invited Reading at Words Together Worlds Apart, Farewell 2021 Showcase/UPenn, Words Together Worlds Apart Farewell 2021 Showcase/UPenn 2021-12-21
- Featured presenter/leader, Line Breaks Workshop, North Carolina Poetry Society 2021-09-01
- , Words Together Worlds Apart/UPenn 2021-06-01
- , Invited Reading 2021-04-01
- , The Asheville Poetry Review 2021-02-01
- , Interview, The Shore 2020-11-01
- , Review, The Compulsive Reader 2020-06-01
- Big Shoes: New Directions at Old Magazines, AWP 2020-03-06
- , Invited Reading 2019-12-01
- Collected Poets Series, Invited Reading 2019-10-03
- , Collected Poets Series 2019-10-01
- , Review, Mom Egg Review 2019-10-01
- , Invited Reading 2019-08-01
- Great American Poetry Crawl, Great American Poetry Crawl 2019-07-08
- , Interview, Adroit Journal 2019-07-01
- , Review, Tupelo Quarterly 2019-07-01
- , Review, Adroit Journal 2019-05-01
- , Invited Reading 2019-04-01
- , Wisconsin Poetry Series Reading 2019-03-01
- , Book Launch, with Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Nickole Brown, and Jessica Jacobs 2019-03-01
- How we need another soul to cling to: Writing Love Poems in Difficult Times,, AWP 2019-03-01
- , Invited Reading 2019-02-01
- , Invited Reading 2019-02-01
- , Radio interview, Wordplay with Jeff Davis and Lockie Hunter 2019-02-01
- Ballade of the Poverties: A Tribute to Adrienne Rich, AWP 2018-03-01