To Speak to Each Day in its Own Language, poems by Melissa Huff

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Melissa’s first full-length collection has been published in October, 2025 by Kelsay Books.

Praise for To Speak to Each Day in its Own Language:

Melissa Huff’s poetry celebrates every subtle glory of the natural world – trees, flowers, water, light, humanity. Some poems whisper an earnest attempt at finding peace in sacred spaces, nearly all paint beautiful tableaus so we can reflect with the poet about the importance of awareness. Many poems make effective use of line breaks and white space, allowing us to pause and breathe as our eyes move down the page. This is a masterful collection of poetry as meditation.

—Kate Hutchinson, editor-in-chief of East on Central: A Journal of Arts and Letters; author of A Matter of Dark Matter (Kelsay Books) and others

Moving toward delight in the natural world is crucial in these poems. In “Belonging,” she asks, “How can I learn to listen to this land?” By the poet’s stillness and receptivity. Attention and attunement. Awareness and awe.

— Veronica Patterson, Loveland, Colorado’s First Poet Laureate, and author of Swan, What Shores? and others

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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