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Leaves Surface Like Skin, Michelle Menting

Congratulations to Michelle whose book, Leaves Surface Like Skin, was named a 2017 finalist by Foreword Reviews in its annual book contest.
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Congratulations to Michelle for the feature of her poem, Jill Falls for Jack, at Verse Daily, her second at this site. The poem is from her book, Leaves Surface Like Skin.
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Congratulations to Michelle for the feature of her poem, How after Snowmelt, at Verse Daily. The poem is from her book, Leaves Surface Like Skin.

Praise for Leaves Surface Like Skin
In Leaves Surface Like Skin, Michelle Menting articulates gorgeous, strange visions of nature inflected by human interference. A forest is interrupted by a graveyard of Bob’s Big Boy statuettes; ruling cockroaches populate a nuclear fall-out film; lichen becomes litter; a horse and farrier practice their choreography, as he “let[s] her lean on him, her hips cocked, almost delicate.” These poems teem with litany, landscape, literal and figurative image; an awareness of mortality hovers, not so much afterlife as underlife. Menting has a gift for moody and luminous phrasing: “For some, the world is wood tick wicked.” There’s magic to a collection that does such heavy lifting with a light touch. 
            —Sandra Beasley
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Michelle Menting is the author of the chapbooks Myth of Solitude (Imaginary Friend Press, 2013) and Residence Time (Dancing Girl Press, 2016). Her work has appeared in The Southeast Review, Diagram, Harpur Palate, The Offing, and elsewhere. Her work has also been featured in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry series. She is the recipient of awards from Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf-Orion Writers' Conference, Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology Hill House Artist Residency program, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and the National Park Service Artist-in-Residence program where she served as poet-in-residence on Isle Royale National Park. An avid trail runner and lake swimmer, she lives in Maine. Leaves Surface Like Skin is her debut full-length collection.

Michelle Menting

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      • The Mayapple Forest, by Kim Ports Parsons
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      • Notes from the Column of Memory, by Wendy Drexler
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      • Design, by Theresa Burns
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      • Years Beyond the River, by David Axelrod
      • The Poet & The Architect, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
      • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
      • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
      • The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
      • A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
      • Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
      • Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
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