Melissa Holm holds an MFA from The University of Mississippi in poetry and a BA in French and English from Denison University. She currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she works as the Research Project Co-ordinator for The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett Project at Emory University. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket, The Southern Humanities Review, The DMQ Review, The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. II: Mississippi, and other journals. Melissa is also an avid runner and enjoys racing in several road races a year with her husband, Matt.
Ab 1) The English preposition of, denotes from, off, away, down as in the Elixor of Youth, as in wormwood grew on the path away from the Garden of Eden, as in the waters became those of wormwood and many men died off, as in the drink was sent down from Mars, warrior god, lover of Venus, son of Jupiter. 2) noun in the Syriac calendar, the last summer month, as in August, as in hot as hell. 3)… Read more →
Henry Grew Crosby, 32 years old, of a socially prominent Boston family, and Mrs. Josephine Rotch Bigelow, 22 years old,… were found dead last night, each with a bullet in the head…The couple died in what is described as a suicide compact…His wife was formerly Mrs. Mary Peabody. The New York Times, December 11, 1929 c.1917 Mrs. Mary (Polly)Peabody: In… Read more →