Mellisa Green: Born in Boston. Author of The Squanicook Eclogues, recently reprinted by Pen & Anvil; and Fifty-Two, published by Arrowsmith, both books of poetry. Color is the Suffering of Light, a memoir, was published by Norton. Her work has been published by Agni, The Paris Review. The New Republic and the New York Review of Books.
Wintrhop, MA, is an island. It maybe connected to the mainland and appear to be a peninsula, but it is an island. The roads are difficult to navigate and construction is rampant. The locals say that if you don’t know your way around Winthrop then you aren’t meant to be there.
But, Winthrop is beautiful. The ocean teases the developing ‘burbs roughly, and the sprawl taunts back, it’s foundations nearly encroaching on the way. This strip of coast maintains an atmosphere of planned tempest; expected, and accepted, and lived. It is here that Melissa Green and Joseph Brodsky would walk.
In a place that is before words. It is where Melissa Green crafts words to life.
A Sea Change
Hic Jacet
Portrait of an Artist: Brodsky
The Splendor Father
In Florida
Invitation
More to come: a selection from Melissa’s most recent work Alkedema…
The Ottoman Estate 
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January 20, 2011 at 17:56
Little Star goes live! | Little Star Journal
[…] #1 and #2, and can be read in The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. Hear her read at The Ottoman Estate and watch a Tribute to Melissa featuring Frank Bidart, Bill Corbett, David Ferry, Melissa Green, […]
February 21, 2011 at 20:06
“Phi,” by Melissa Green | Little Star Journal
[…] Light, and Fifty-two. Sign a letter calling for them to be returned to print here. Hear her read at The Ottoman Estate and watch a tribute to her featuring the poet herself and too many luminaries to count […]