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Melissa Green
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Melissa Green is the author of three collections of poems, The Squanicook Eclogues (W. W. Norton & Co.), Fifty-Two (Arrowsmith Press), and most recently Magpiety: New and Selected Poems (Arrowsmith), and two memoirs, Color Is the Suffering of Light (Norton) and The Linen Way (Rosa Mira Books). She has received the Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Little Star, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. She lives in Winthrop, Massachusetts. (updated 10/2016)

Read Sumita Chakraborty’s interview with Melissa Green at The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Read David Rivard’s review of Magpiety at AGNI Online.

AGNI has published the following work:

Poetry
Moving Day
AGNI 66Print Only
Poetry
Leaving the Farm
AGNI 57Print Only
Poetry
I Have Shuttered My Eyes with My Hands
AGNI 57Print Only
Poetry
A Stormy Spring
AGNI 66Print Only
Poetry
A Saltbox in Vermont
AGNI 66Print Only
Poetry
Invitation
AGNI 66Print Only
Poetry
Love in an Irish Family
AGNI 66Print Only
Poetry
In Early April
AGNI 66Print Only
Poetry
Fetters
AGNI 66Print Only
Poetry
Green Willow, Green Willow
AGNI 66Print Only
Poetry
Furniture
AGNI 66Print Only
Poetry
The Eater of Paper, the Drinker of Ink
AGNI 66Print Only
Poetry
Enchantments
AGNI 66Print Only
Poetry
selections from Akeldama
AGNI 71Print Only
Poetry
Leda, Later
AGNI 77Print Only
Poetry
A Story
Poetry
The Housewright’s Mercy
AGNI 24 and 25Print Only
Poetry
from The Squanicook Eclogues:* January*
AGNI 18Print Only
Poetry
from The Squanicook Eclogues:* October*
AGNI 18Print Only
Poetry
from The Squanicook Eclogues:* August*
AGNI 18Print Only
Poetry
from The Squanicook Eclogues:* April*
AGNI 18Print Only
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