Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) and Lo (University of Iowa Press, 2023), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared recently in 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, Poetry Northwest, and the New England Poetry Review, and she coordinates the MFA program at UNCW, where she teaches poetry and publishing.

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Craft, Community, and Creation: An Inside Look at UNCW’s MFA Program

Kennedy Cole ⟡ Conversation with Melissa Crowe
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