Meia Geddes lives in Boston as a writer, artist, and librarian at the Boston Public Library. She is the author of The Little Queen and Love Letters to the World. She holds a BA from Brown University and MS from Simmons University, and is an MFA candidate and Teaching Fellow at University of Massachusetts – Boston. A Fulbright scholar, she has also received funding from the American Library Association and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She is a member of the New England Book Artists and founder of Poetose. Find a selection of her works at www.meiageddes.com.
A bird once gave me a list of ancient bird songs, a list of songs written in birdsong deemed to be among the greater songs, the classic bird songs. It was a day of curious longing. Winged things cannot be translated. No matter how one tries, the translation will be wrong. But my new friend did not seem to mind… Read more →