Melissa Eleftherion is a writer, librarian, and a visual artist. She grew up in Brooklyn, dropped out of high school, and went on to earn an MFA in Poetry from Mills College and an MLIS from San Jose State University. She is the author of
field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), & six chapbooks:
huminsect (dancing girl press, 2013),
prism maps (Dusie, 2014),
Pigtail Duty (dancing girl press, 2015),
the leaves the leaves (poems-for-all, 2017),
green glass asterisms (poems-for-all, 2017) &
little ditch (above/ground press, 2018). Founder of the Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange for San Francisco State University, Melissa now lives in Mendocino County where she manages the Ukiah Library, teaches creative writing, & curates the LOBA Reading Series. Recent work is available at
www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com.
What are you working on?
I just finished a 30/30 project called The Poeming where myself and 30 other poets wrote 31 erasures based on the work of Seanan McGuire. Since I enjoy the playfulness and the serendipitous nature of found poems, I decided to keep up the daily praxis by writing more erasures, this time based on James Salter’s
A Sport and a Pastime, a book that angers me deeply for its subjugation of women. Found poems can have the uncanny ability to strike at the core of the unconscious tenor of what’s happening, whether in the world, the mind, or the body. I like experimenting with the treasures resonant in someone else’s language.
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