Books
To Speak to Each Day in its Own Language, poems by Melissa Huff
Melissa’s first full-length collection is coming soon from Kelsay Books.
Advance praise for To Speak to Each Day in its Own Language:
“In Melissa Huff’s stunning collection, To Speak to Each Day in its Own Language, she creates “garlands of meaning” with beautiful imagery and a deep reverence for nature. Huff reminds us that nature holds and supports us at every turn, “my senses know that tomorrow a bevy / of birds will sing the sun into the sky.” Sometimes nature simply sets an example for us to follow, as when Huff writes, “one jagged hill / to demonstrate persistence / despite time’s erosion.” She reassures us that nature has the power to heal and transform, “nature’s patterns / will fill our pores / white light / will spill color at our feet.” This inspiring, insightful collection offers up a source of great comfort and hope, “I / will lift my face to the horizon and—grateful to have had / this voyage—take to the sky with salt-studded wings.””
—Cristina M. R. Norcross, Founding Editor of Blue Heron Review; author of The Poetry Apothecary and other titles
Selected Anthologies in which Melissa’s poems appear:
Thin Places & Sacred Spaces, from Amethyst Press, includes the poem, Fern Room, Lincoln Park Conservatory.
Available from Amazon at Thin Places & Sacred Spaces: A Poetry Anthology
Chiaroscuro: An Anthology of Virtue and Vice, from Northern Colorado Writers, includes Advanced Civilizations 101 and The Gathering.
Available from Amazon at Chiaroscuro: An Anthology of Virtue and Vice
Encore: Prize Poems 2022, from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, includes Riverspeak.
Available from Amazon at Encore: Prize Poems 2022
BlackBerry Peach Poetry Prizes 2020, published by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, includes It All Happens Here, Anywhere, Promises Made by a Chinese Landscape Painting, and Artist at Play.
Available from Amazon at BlackBerry Peach Poetry Prizes 2020
BlackBerry Peach Poetry Prizes 2019, published by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, includes The Moon Being the Moon, Pilgrimage, Early March, Spring Is a Strong Verb, and an earlier version of Belonging.
Available from Amazon at BlackBerry Peach Poetry Prizes 2019