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Lynn Melnick is the author of the poetry collections Landscape with Sex and Violence (2017) and If I Should Say I Have Hope (2012), both with YesYes Books, and the co-editor of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation (Viking, 2015). Her poetry has appeared in APR, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and A Public Space, and her essays have appeared in LA Review of Books, ESPN, and the anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture.

A former fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and previously on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, she currently teaches poetry at Columbia University and the 92Y, and works with saferLIT. Born in ...more

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	Landscape with Sex and Violence 4.49 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If I Should Say I Have Hope 4.38 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Emma Smith-Stevens (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) , Aubrey Hirsch (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 10,124 ratings — published 2018 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation by Brett Fletcher Lauer (Goodreads Author), Lynn Melnick (Goodreads Author) , Carolyn Forché (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.59 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault by Joanna C. Valente (Goodreads Author) (Editor), C.A. Conrad (Goodreads Author) , Christoph Paul (Goodreads Author) 4.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems for Political Disaster by Mary Jo Bang (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Calvin Bedient , Susan Briante (Goodreads Author) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HYSTERIA: Writing the Female Body by E. Kristin Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rita Dove , Francesca Lia Block (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics by Fox Frazier-Foley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Diana Arterian (Goodreads Author) (Editor) , Kazim Ali (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement by Shelly Oria (Editor), Kaitlyn Greenidge (Contributor) , Melissa Febos (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.21 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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