Melissa Kwasny

In this episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Melissa Kwasny, author of ‘The Cloud Path’ (Milkweed Editions), a collection that reckons with grief and its subsequent healing.

For Honor, Hope and Healing Week, listen to host Lauren Korn read “The Snow Geese Path” by Melissa Kwasny. You can also read the poem, which was…

"They do say women are most at risk of being beat up during the Super Bowl, statistically. So I was just thinking, when are men most dangerous? And it…

"I have been thinking about consciousness, who has it and who doesn’t," writes poet, essayist and editor, Melissa Kwasny. "'Consciousness: to have a sense…

The women of the interior prepare themselves for pain by igniting small piles of fir needles on their wrists. I, too, want to age in the mountains, though…

Archaeologist Sara Scott is fascinated by the petroglyphs of the West:"The crunch of limestone under my boots echoes up the canyon as I walk through its…

Marsh-grass like a bank creature, black-footed and salt-tipped. Twilightin the water grown tinsel. You're drawn to them heavily, a claritystilled, waiting…

An artist places the intangible and tangible objects on the table together:drift of diamond light from the Sky of the Mindwith the Asian poppy, the plate…

Melissa Kwasny talks about her book Earth Recitals: Essays of Image & Vision, and about how reflecting on the images we see in the outer, nonhuman, world…