HOMEGROWN STORIES -- THE YEAR OF THE POET

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This is the second installment of Homegrown Stories’ Year of the Poet. We again asked Melissa Ginsburg for an inspirational poem and, with Apollo, she did not disappoint.

This collection of experimental videos is a curated group of international artists. Our ten video artists have reimagined Apollo’s birth, reign, and demise through music, image, and text.

This is excerpted from Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Melissa Ginsburg in conversation with Alexander Chee - Women's Resource & Action Center | The University of Iowa

"Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, the poetry collection Dear Weather Ghost, and two poetry chapbooks, Arbor and Double Blind. A second poetry collection, Doll Apollo, will be published in 2022 by LSU Press, and the poetry chapbook Apollo is forthcoming in June from Condensery Press. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. Originally from Houston, Texas, Melissa studied poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with two dogs, eleven chickens, and the writer Chris Offutt.”