Landscape with Written Statement by Lynn Melnick

  • Lynn Melnick

Reprinted with permission from Landscape with Sex and Violence (YesYes Books, 2017)

Lynn Melnick is the author of the poetry collections

Landscape with Sex and Violence

and

If I Should Say I Have Hope

, and the co-editor of

Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation

. Her poetry has appeared in

APR, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space

, and elsewhere. A 2017-2018 fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, she also serves on the Executive Board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.

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