Melanie Green Poetry Reading

The 16th season of the Milwaukie Poetry Series continues on February 8 at 6pm with a live reading at the library by poet Melanie Green. Seating limited to 50.

Melanie Green has two collections of poetry: Continuing Bridge and Determining Sky, available through Mountains and Rivers Press of Eugene, Oregon. She was a participant in Portland’s “word & hand” collaboration, where six poets were paired with six visual artists to create new works of art as dialogue. Her poems were also incorporated in the modern dance performance, “Under Fallen Stars,” choreographed by Sue Brantley. The poems in Melanie Green's A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm (Poetry Box) are an invitation to slow down, to rest deep into quiet and the contemplative. Melanie Green’s poetry explores the connection with the numinous—as well as speaking to the difficulty of living with a chronic illness.