Poetry Reading

Featuring

Melissa Carr

2-4 p.m.

Come listen to our very own Poet Librarian Melissa Carr read some of her amazing work.

"Hello, and thank you for visiting my portfolio! My name is Melissa Eleftherion Carr. I work as a Teen & Adult Services Librarian with Mendocino County Libraries – creating, developing and implementing programming & services for teens and adults. Like a lot of librarians, I wear many hats – reference, reader’s advisory, collection development, outreach, publicity, marketing, project management, circulation, food service… whatever it takes. It’s the best job in the world.

I’m also a poet. My work has been collected in various forms and fragments including journals, anthologies, and six chapbooks: huminsect (dancing girl press, 2013),prism maps (dusie kollektiv), Pigtail Duty (dancing girl press, 2015), the leaves the leaves (poems-for-all, 2018), abalone (poems-for-all, 2018), & green glass asterisms (poems-for-all, 2018). My poems have been published in over sixty journals and anthologies, and have recently appeared in Entropy,Flag+Void, Lunch Ticket, Pith, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, & Vector Press.

My first full-length collection, field guide to autobiography, was published by (now-defunct) H_NGM_N Books in April 2017, and is currently seeking a new publisher due to the press’ folding. The book explores the inter-relatedness of various species through accreted fragments toward autobiography. How does a person begin to enumerate the many fragments & fractals that comprise a life? field guide to autobiography is an attempt at memoir through the lens of various animals & minerals including katydids, wrens, abalone shells, and apple trees."