Melanie Maria Goodreaux is a poet, playwright, essayist and fiction writer. Originally from New Orleans, she is the author of Black Jelly, A Poem as Big as New York City and dozens of plays. She writes and lives in Vermont and New York.
The 19-year-old woman whose poetry I've been reading alternately rages with political protest and coos with gender-bending sensuality and self-discovery. On the first page…
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