Melissa Studdard
“A poem is a success if anyone in the world loves it, whether that is a brilliant critic, an unsophisticated adolescent, or the person who wrote it.”
Melissa Studdard
“For me, a poem is like a dream in that its symbols are not literal.”
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A Trip Around the Cosmos: An Interview with Melissa Studdard
interview with Keaona Gray-Outlaw
Melissa Studdard is the author of two poetry collections, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast and Dear Selection Committee. Her Awards include The Penn ReviewPoetry Prize, the Tom Howard Prize from Winning Writers, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and more. Studdard’s poems “Planted My Shame in the Backyard” and “We Made a Gala” are featured in this issue.