Melissa Shepherd
@melissashepherd.bsky.social
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Writer and editor MFA candidate in poetry Mile Square Theatre board of trustees
So grateful to Twin Bird Review for publishing my poems, “Copenhagen, call of the void” and “I Sing the Belly Electric” in the beautiful summer issue!
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Sonnets fans, have you read Atom and Void by Aaron Fagan? Each poem bursting at its boxy seams with ideas. Read my review of the book on the Good River Review site:
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Circle in the Square: A Review of ATOM AND VOID by Aaron Fagan
Reviewed by Melissa Shepherd / May 2026 Aaron Fagan’s Atom and Void proves the paradox of freedom in constraint. Within the confines of their tidy boxes, the book’s fifty-five one-stanza sonnets range...
https://www.goodriverreview.com/post/circle-in-the-square-a-review-of-atom-and-void-by-aaron-fagan
about 1 month ago
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Thanks to
#TheDreadLiteraryReview
for making me the featured poet this week! Four poems up on the site now.
#speculative
#horror
#poetry
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FEATURE: The Poetry of Melissa Shepherd
Sonnet for a Gravestone Not for nothing would I kiss your chloral corpse, grandmother—panic-flung near Fresh Kills (before that dump of dumps went pastoral), poisonous sauerkraut, pure German swill ...
https://the-dread-literary-review.ghost.io/feature-the-poetry-of-melissa-shepherd/
about 1 month ago
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Thank you to
#LittleCityBooks
for hosting a great poetry discussion this week. So grateful to have been in conversation with two fine NJ poets, Ann E. Wallace and Catalina Florina Florescu, and to hear them read from their latest collections.
#Hoboken
#Poetry
about 2 months ago
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