Melanie McCabe
@melaniemccabe.bsky.social
Writer. Poet.
Author of a memoir, His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams (University of New Orleans Press, 2017).
Also three books of poetry, most recently The Night Divers (Terrapin Books, 2022.)
Author of a memoir, His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams (University of New Orleans Press, 2017).
Also three books of poetry, most recently The Night Divers (Terrapin Books, 2022.)
Thrilled to announce my fourth book of poems, All The Signs Were There, is the winner of the Longleaf Press Book Contest and will be published in early 2026! Thank you to judge Roger Weingarten and the staff at Longleaf!
March 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thrilled to announce my fourth book of poems, All The Signs Were There, is the winner of the Longleaf Press Book Contest and will be published in early 2026! Thank you to judge Roger Weingarten and the staff at Longleaf!
The one and only time my writing went viral. Happy to repost this piece from 2020-- and to lift up kindness and love over cruelty and hate.
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Perspective | Valentine’s Day was humiliating for me as a child. I tell my students about it every year.
“In sixth grade,” I begin, “I fell madly in love. His name was David."
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February 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The one and only time my writing went viral. Happy to repost this piece from 2020-- and to lift up kindness and love over cruelty and hate.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
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Reposted by Melanie McCabe
This is starting to make the Saturday night massacre look like a garden party. The people with real responsibility, the AG & the acting AG are lined up with the WH, not the courageous prosecutors standing up for ethics and integrity.
February 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is starting to make the Saturday night massacre look like a garden party. The people with real responsibility, the AG & the acting AG are lined up with the WH, not the courageous prosecutors standing up for ethics and integrity.
