Crowe, Melissa M

Department Chair

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Department Chair, Creative Writing , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

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crowem@uncw.edu

910.962.3436

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Selected Publications

Article
- "Caro Nome”. PoemMemoirStory (renamed Nelle in 2018). 2016-01-01
- “Bodies of Water". Literary Mama. 2014-09-01
Book
- Lo. University of Iowa Press. 2023-05-01
- Dear Terror, Dear Splendor. University of Wisconsin Press. 2019-02-01
- Girl, Giant. Finishing Line Press. 2013-12-01
- Cirque du Crève-Cœur. . 2008-04-01
Document
- "It's Not the Body's Fault". Swamp Pink. 2026-11-01
- "When It's Over". Swamp Pink. 2026-11-01
- "Home Training". Nelle. 2026-03-01
- "Interpenetration and Extension". Southern Indiana Review. 2025-12-01
- "Mercy as a Verb: An Essay Review of Corrie Williamson’s Your Mother’s Bear Gun. Bear Review. 2025-08-01
- "Second Person". Strange Hymnal. 2025-04-01
- "I've Never Stopped Loving Anyone". Salt Hill. 106. 2025-03-01
- "I Never Touch the Stuff". Copper Nickel. 44. 2024-10-01
- "So What If I Was Born Wanting Both". The Nashville Review. 2024-04-01
- "I Want to Go to Them and Say Stop". The Rumpus. 2024-03-01
- "I'm Tired of Writing About My Childhood". The Rumpus. 2024-03-01
- "What I Wanted to Keep Private". The Rumpus. 2024-03-01
- "Always I have been trying to show you". 32 Poems. 2023-08-01
- "How the Night Ends". 32 Poems. 2023-08-01
- "In the Other Universe, I have a Bear Tattoo". Passages North. 2023-07-01
- "The Thing Itself". Image. 2023-03-01
- "Often in Dreams She Was My Girlfriend Until I Remembered, Still Asleep, That It Wasn't Okay". Sugar House Review. 2022-07-01
- "Thrownness". Poetry Northwest. 2022-07-01
- "When I Was Afraid”. Sugar House Review. 2022-07-01
- "Benediction for Lovers at Midlife". Asheville Poetry Review. 2022-05-01
- "Dear Uncle". Asheville Poetry Review. 1. 2022-05-01
- "But Nothing Bad Ever Happened to Me in the Woods". . 2022-04-01
- "Poem Written While My Friend Has Bone Marrow Harvested for Stem Cells". Crab Creek Review. 2022-04-01
- "I want to tell you what poverty gave me--" (reprint). Poetry Daily. 2022-02-01
- "When She Speaks of the Fire". Los Angeles Review. 2021-12-01
- I want to tell you what poverty gave me—". New England Review. 2021-11-01
- "Epithalamium with Empty Nest". Shenandoah. 1. 2021-09-01
- "Elegy in Quarantine". The Rupture. 2021-06-01
- "General Absolution". The Rupture. 2021-06-01
- "Lo". The Rupture. 2021-06-01
- "Poem Written the Day Before the Pandemic Brings Our Kid Home from Europe Unexpectedly". Mom Egg Review. 2021-04-01
- “I’ll tell you what helped". Nelle. 2021-04-01
- “Lessons". Water Stone Review. 2021-01-01
- "Epithalamium with Paper Bell". Four Way Review. 2020-11-01
- Two Poems. Four Way Review. 2020-11-01
- "America you're breaking". The Shore. 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
- "Benediction with Foundlings". Tupelo Quarterly. 2020-07-01
- "Epithalamium with Inventory". Thrush. 2020-07-01
- "Little Deprivation in the Big North Woods". POETRY. 2020-07-01
- "Poet loves hunter though she’ll eat no meat". Adroit Journal. 2020-05-01
- "When We’re in Bed and You Take out Your Mouth Guard, I Know It’s On". Academy of American Poets. 2020-01-01
- "Say”. Tupelo Quarterly. 2019-06-01
- "The Parting". Baltimore Review. 2019-06-01
- "Mourning Portrait for Uncle Steve”. Nelle. 2018-11-01
- "Some Say the World". Glass: A Journal of Poetry. 2018-09-01
- "Waiting Song with Dioramas,” “One Reason to Stay,” and “Skydiver". Connotation Press. 2018-05-01
- "Damage". Literary Mama. 2018-04-01
- "Nom de Guerre". The Florida Review. 2018-04-01
- "A Laying On of Hands". . 2018-01-01
- "Dear Terror, Dear Splendor". The Shallow Ends. 2017-10-01
- "Forgiftet Garden” and “Still Life with Geese and Oxycontin". The Boiler. 2016-11-01
- "Shadowed in Sunstruck Fields". Beloit Poetry Journal. 2015-11-01
- "Instead of Prayer". Atlanta Review. 2015-10-01
- "Southbound Epithalamium". The Cortland Review. 2015-10-01
- “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
- "New Wine". Beloit Poetry Journal. 2015-06-01
- “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
- “Things to Keep,” essay review of Emilia Phillip’s Signaletics and Jamaal May’s Hum. Beloit Poetry Journal. 2014-10-01
- "Things to Keep". Beloit Poetry Journal,. 2014-09-01
- Meanwhile. Asheville Poetry Review. 2013-11-01
- Elegy for Michael and the Sea. The Café Review. 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
- Epithalamium with Humming Bird. Maine Magazine. 2012-05-01
- Love Song with Vehophobia. Lumina. 2012-04-01
- This River. Words and Images. 2011-04-01
- “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
- Review of Lee Sharkey’s A Darker, Sweeter String. The Café Review. 2009-07-01
- Epithalamium with Acrobats. The Café Review. 2009-04-01
- “Girl Giant,” “Epithalamium with Adultery,” and “These Two Eleanors,”. Words and Images. 2009-04-01
- Orphan Looks a Gift Horse in the Mouth (or Why I Want to Quit the Circus). Clementine. 2009-01-01
- Presque Isle is Pentimento. Echoes. 2009-01-01
- Labor Aubade. Crab Orchard Review. 2007-09-01
- Stabat Mater Dolorosa. Seneca Review. 2007-05-01
- Old Man and Nurse. Atlanta Review. 2007-04-01
- Scholarly Review of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel. The Georgia Review. 2005-10-01
- Review of Beth Ann Fennelly’s Tender Hooks. The Georgia Review. 2004-10-01
- Etching. Lifeboat: A Journal of Memoir. 2003-10-01
- I Watch Nature While Breastfeeding. Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. 2003-07-01
- Bruise. Crab Orchard Review. 2003-04-01

Presentations

Presentation
- Master Class in Poetry, NC Writers Network Fall Conference 2026-11-08
- Featured Reader 2026-03-04
- Reading, Strange Hymnal Issue Launch 2025-04-01
- Reading, Punch Bucket Lit Festival 2024-09-01
- Invited Reading, NC State Literary Reading Series 2024-04-01
- The Assertion and the Song: The Possibilities of Eco-elegy, Art United: Interdisciplinary art and writing workshop 2024-04-01
- Invited Reader/Panelist, Clemson Literary Festival 2024-03-01
- "Be Gay, Do Crime: Teaching Queer and Trans Poetics in Dangerous Times", AWP 2024-02-01
- Invited Reading, AWP Offsite Reading/32 Poems 2024-02-01
- Invited Reading, AWP Offsite Reading/Punch Bucket Lit 2024-02-01
- 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
- Featured Reader