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Melanie Faith

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Melanie Faith likes to wear many professional hats, including as a poet, photographer, prose writer, professor, editor, and tutor.

She enjoys old-school film cameras, quotes, that new-shoes feeling, thoughtfulness, ASMR videos about maps and books, and spending time with fellow writers and her nieces

Her latest narrative poetry collection, Does It Look Like Her? (February 2024), follows Alix, a forty-something artist, new educator, and mom, and the famous painting she sits for. The poems explore what it means to pursue artistic passion, the personal meanings we overlay onto art and artists in a society not conducive to art-making, ambition at midlife, and the indirect route to so-called overnight success.

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It's Your Time to Write in 2026!

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“Have some patience with where you are compared to where you dream to be—you will get there, but it likely won’t be quick or easy. Then again, what meaningful pursuit ever is?”
Melanie Faith, In a Flash!: Writing & Publishing Dynamic Flash Prose

“Identifying our subject is not rational, analytical, methodical, or consistent. You cannot set your clock by it, as my grandfather used to say. Instead, it is fire-in-the-hole, it is combustion, it is a knowing thought with the force of magnetism, and it is very short-lived.”
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“Remind your inner critic at regular intervals: Making is your birthright and life’s work. Creation is innate, spontaneous, mysterious, raw, unfiltered, and fun.”
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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
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“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
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Melanie Faith Belinda wrote: "Thanks for connecting, Melanie."

I look forward to seeing what books you're reading.


Melanie Faith Belinda wrote: "Thanks for connecting, Melanie."

You're welcome Belinda. :)


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