The Teenage Girl in All of Us: Last Sext by Melissa Broder
Last Sext captures a youthful, hard, myth-informed, sleep deprived, aroused, spiritually searching, self-loathing worldview embraced by many of the young women in our lives.
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Posts Tagged: Melissa Broder
Notable Los Angeles: 3/20–3/26
Monday 3/20: Marc Eliot in conversation with Fraser Heston discusses and signs Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Tuesday 3/21: Melissa Scrivner Love discusses and signs Lola. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Lisa See discusses and signs The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Melissa Febos discusses her memoir […]
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So Sad Today by Melissa Broder
E.B. Bartels reviews So Sad Today by Melissa Broder today in Rumpus Books.
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Scarecrone by Melissa Broder
Lois Bassen reviews Melissa Broder’s Scarecrone today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreNotable NYC: 1/25–1/31
Saturday 1/25: Tan Lin and Syzygy read poetry at the Segue Poetry Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 1/26: Melissa Broder, R. Erica Doyle, Jay Deshpande, and Loie Hollowell read poetry as part of La Perruque 3, an interdisciplinary series. Broder’s collection, Meat Heart (2013) explores personal suffering through discomfort causing narrative arcs. Doyle’s […]
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A National Poetry Month Special: “Bones” by Melissa Broder, Illustrated by Paul Tunis
When Paul Tunis emailed me and asked if I’d be interested in looking at a comic he’d drawn in collaboration with the poet Melissa Broder, my answer was an unequivocal yes.
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I Have a Jaw That Seeks Chunks
In Melissa Broder’s second collection, Meat Heart, there is a burgeoning tension between the spiritual life of the imagination and its blood and guts container—the forehead, the hips, the heart—that is both dire and light. At the core of these poems is hunger, the drive to consume or destroy, an instinctual void as visceral as […]
...moreFreak Flag Fly
[T]his is no Rand McNally; what makes the collection exciting is Iredell’s delicious sense of humor, his play with language and the dexterity with which he varies his voice.
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Let’s Float Free in the New Air
Such a surreal experience of the human body pervades See Me Improving. There is as much mystery in sneezing as there is in orgasm.
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Black Hole Sun
Ultimately, though, it’s the cadence of the voice that engages the reader. Slant rhyme, and skillfully enjambed couplets and tercets, are the real shakers.
...morePoetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
So, did you like our National Poetry Month project? If you missed any of the poems, check them out here. Barbara Jane Reyes has some interesting thoughts on poetic tradition. Virginia Heffernan discusses the way self-publication has lost some of its stigma, and introduces me to a new term: microniche publishing. If you missed seeing […]
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