Lynn Melnick

Lynn Melnick’s poems have appeared in Paris Review, jubilat, Guernica, and LIT.

Inauguration Poem

Do you know what it’s like when a body twice yours 
holds you down in the room where you make your life 

until you wouldn’t know how to move even if he wasn’t 
holding you down and then he splits you further open 

  • Lynn Melnick

Seven Questions on Milk and Filth

  • Lynn Melnick
  • Carmen Giménez Smith

Microreview: Jackie Clark, Aphoria

  • Lynn Melnick

Microreview: Betsy Wheeler, Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room

Non-sonnets and other love poems.

  • Lynn Melnick

Microreviews: Boni Joi, Before During or After Rainstorms

A vibrant and incisive first collection. 

  • Lynn Melnick

Microreview: Grace Zabriskie, Poems

An authentic and spirited book from a longtime character actor.

  • Lynn Melnick

Monstrous

  • Lynn Melnick
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