Melissa I. Hassard

This is a phenomenal opportunity to spend a few hours writing with Keith Flynn and other area writers. Join us for an afternoon of ideas and rhythms to jumpstart the creative process. Sunday, June 2, 2013, 2:00-5:00pm, Kathleen Clay Edwards Branch of the Greensboro Public Library Cost $25  | Register at Eventbrite here. The photographer, […]

Saturday, June 1, 7:00pm, Keith Flynn joins us here in Greensboro to read from his latest collection, Colony Collapse Disorder, with an open mic to follow. Tate Street Coffeehouse. Sunday, June 2, at 2:00-5:00pm, Inspiration Station, a creative writing workshop with Keith at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Branch of the Greensboro Public Library. Cost: $25  REGISTRATION HERE. Keith […]

In honor of Sunday morning, thought I’d read Creationism to you.    

So much wonderful for April and National Poetry Month from Beth Sheffield, the Greensboro Public Library and Poetry GSO: Poetry GSO 2013 Featured Events and Programs Monday, April 1 at 7 pm at the Central Library Silly Poems at Monday Night Poetry kicks off the National Poetry Month celebration. Saturday, April 13 at 1 pm at […]

“Don’t write for therapy. It won’t help and you’ll write shit. Write fiction. Good, honest, true fiction. You’ll experience great freedom. Be a brave writer and a cowardly editor. Save everything. Lose nothing.”   Thank you for this advice, T.  I saved it, of course.  – mih

Listen. when is a door not a door? She’ll let you in her house If you come knockin’ late at night She’ll let you in her mouth If the words you say are right If you pay the price She’ll let you deep inside But there’s a secret garden she hides  “Why it’s simply impassible! […]

I don’t know what to do with this shade of blue. It’s sticky. It leeches to my fingers and now the cherries taste funny and I cannot eat them. Instead I eat this blue by the spoonful. It feels like cotton, like wool on my tongue and tastes like iron and honeysuckle: pain. My pain. […]

Celebrate love and poetry on February 9th for a reading of the … and love … anthology from Jacar Press,  and its second printing — just in time for Valentine’s Day. Fred Chappell, Sarah Lindsey,  Stuart Dischell, and Debra Kaufman are scheduled to read. And! a creative writing opportunity to follow — in the form of a workshop […]

This is the first of the 2013 Series of Women Writers of the Triad’s Writers’ Workshops.  It promises to be inspiring and productive! ** PLEASE NOTE ** This event is open to the general public but registration in advance is required.  Writers from all groups and genres welcome! Register NOW to reserve your space! Cost for […]

vibrant cranberries, one drop of water holds on –Deborah Finkelstein Just in time for Christmas, The Sound of Poets Cooking, the wonderful poetry anthology/cookbook, is available from Amazon.com for Kindle as well as for Kobo (both with free apps for reading on the iPad)  and will make the perfect gift for the poetry or food lover in […]