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 of her book, titled simply Soul, Devyn Thompson is photographed in black and white and is shockingly posed to look like she’s hanging herself. On page 21, she wears a slinky […]
Melanie Maria Goodreaux
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.
