Distāntia: "Reproductive Labor" by Holly Melgard (Single Malt Whiskey Reading, UDP)
Channel: Off Topic Poetics
Date: 2020-03-15

Holly Melgard reads at the Single Malt Whiskey Reading, Bowery Poetry Club in NYC on March 8, 2020. 

Holly Melgard is the author of the Poems for Baby trilogy, The Making of The Americans, Black Friday, Reimbursement (Troll Thread) and Cats Can’t Taste Sugar (Gaus PDF). Along with Joey Yearous-Algozin, she’s co-authored White Trash (Troll Thread) and Holly Melgard’s Friends and Family (Bon Aire Projects). She’s performed her poems and soundworks at such sites as the Kelly Writers House, New York Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Her writing has appeared in l’Officiel Art, 6×6, and the Best American Experimental Poetry 2015 anthology. A founding editor of Troll Thread press, she’s also co-curated the Segue Reading Series and co-edited P-Queue and Slightly West literary journals. She is currently writing her PhD dissertation on “Poetics of Ubiquitization: Textual Conditions of/for the Ubiquitous Computing Age” in the Buffalo Poetics Program, designing and co-editing Troll Thread press, teaching writing at CUNY, and living in Brooklyn, NY.

Want more? Check out Holly's book "Catcall": https://uglyducklingpresse.org/contributors/holly-melgard/