Poetry and Painting: Practicing Multiple Disciplines

Melanie Janisse Barlow is a poet and a visual artist. Her first collection of poetry, Orioles in the Oranges (Guernica, 2009), was listed for the Relit Award, and her essay poems Detroit were listed in Best American Essays (2013). She has published in a variety of anthologies and journals in Canada and the US, and her painting practice includes The Poets Series, a popular portraiture series of contemporary poets which has been widely received and reviewed, most recently in Poets and Writers, Taddle Creek, The Humber Literary Review, and Quill and Quire. Her latest book, Thicket, was released in Fall 2019 by Palimpsest Press. Melanie Janisse Barlow lives between her home in Windsor, Ontario and her wooden boat Kalinka in Toronto.https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/thicket/https://www.melaniejanissebarlow.com/