Poets with Masks On; A Pandemic Anthology Edited by Melanie Simms – Featuring pandemic poetry by Richard Blanco, Molly Peacock, Ellen Bass, Gary Fincke, Connie Post, Melanie Simms, Christine Gelineau, Jason O’Toole, David Swanger among many others.

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“In a dark time the eye begins to see,” wrote Theodore Roethke. The poets of this remarkable collection are the eyes by which we begin to see not only the darkness of our harrowing COVID year but also the strength, the necessary strength, to write and create in the midst of it all. In that way, this collection is both a document and a promise of what we can all summon in order to persevere.

–Richard Deming, Director of Creative Writing, Winner of the Berlin prize, Yale University

 

“Despite the darkness responsible for the origin of these poems, Melanie Simms has brightened the world by compiling a small, but compelling anthology. I, for one, am happy to have work included among such a varied, engaging collection.”

–Gary Fincke, author of The Infinity Room and The Mussolini Diaries.  Founding Director of the Writer’s Institute, Susquehanna University.

 

 

 

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Poets with Masks On; A Pandemic Anthology

Edited by Melanie Simms
Featuring pandemic poetry by Richard Blanco, Molly Peacock, Ellen Bass, Gary Fincke, Connie Post, Melanie Simms, Christine Gelineau, Jason O’Toole, David Swanger among many others.

$21.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-730-1

2022

Melanie Simms, a graduate of the Bloomsburg University Creative Writing Department, is an award winning author with a variety of publications of poetry to her credit. “Poets with Masks On,” is her fourth book and first anthology collection.   Melanie’s previous novels include Remember the Sun (Sunbury Press, Mechanicsburg, PA), Life Signs and Fortune Cookies (Brown Poesy Press), and Waking the Muse (Outskirts Press). Melanie’s fifth book, “Alien Prophecy,” is currently in progress and she hopes to adapt it for screen.

Her individual poems have been featured in hundreds of publications including The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Blood and Thunder Literary Journal (Oklahoma University College of Medicine), The Galway Review (Ireland), The Taj Mahal Review, Adelaide Literary Magazine and Jerry Jazz Musician.

She is a former Poet Laureate of Perry County, Pennsylvania and served as the President and Founder of the Association of Pennsylvania Poets’ Laureate.

Her literary acknowledgements/awards include a Vermont Writer’s Studio Scholarship, a Sophie Award (Perry County Arts Association for Excellence in Poetry), Poet of the Month (Poetry Superhighway) and a winner in the Poetry in Transit Award from King’s College.  She is also a second place winner in the Richard Savage Poetry Award (Bloomsburg University), and a finalist in the Adelaide Literary Magazine (New York, Lisboa) competition in the poetry and short story categories.

Melanie has been a regular featured guest on NPR Affiliate WVIA with Erica Funke, and with Mark Lawrence of WKOK.  She has also appeared as a guest on WITF (Arts and Culture Desk with Cary Burkett), ABC 27, PCN Television, PA Matters with Matt Paul, and Willamsport Today with Fiona Powell among many other radio and television stations. She is included in the prestigious Penn State Center for the Book, Cambridge Who’s Who of publications, and Marquis Who’s Who of the World.

2 reviews for Poets with Masks On; A Pandemic Anthology Edited by Melanie Simms – Featuring pandemic poetry by Richard Blanco, Molly Peacock, Ellen Bass, Gary Fincke, Connie Post, Melanie Simms, Christine Gelineau, Jason O’Toole, David Swanger among many others.

  1. Heidi Timmerman –

    I have been a fan of Melanie’s work since 2015. “Remember the Sun” was one of my favorites. I am looking forward to her pandemic anthology with much fervor! Thank you!

  2. melanie simms –

    Wow, thanks! So grateful for your kind comments! I look forward to it, too! There are so many wonderful talents contributing to this anthology. I feel you will be happy when you finally get the book in your hands. Again, thanks!

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