Poetry Masterclass with Melissa Ginsburg

The students will learn about the use of rhyme, assonance, and homage in poetry.

Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the poetry collections Doll Apollo and Dear Weather Ghost, the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, and three poetry chapbooks, Arbor, Double Blind, and Apollo. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Image, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. Originally from Houston, Texas, Melissa studied poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Mississippi and serves as Associate Editor of Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.