Building on my experience as a writer and educator, I prepare grant proposals for non-profits in the arts and education, and I am currently taking new clients. For sample proposals and other information, you can reach me at hello@melissareeserpoulin.com.

I look forward to connecting with you. Meanwhile, please browse my portfolio at Contently and visit the links below to get a feel for my creative work.

Books

Winged: New Writing on Bees. Co-edited with Jill McKenna Reed.  Poulin Publishing, 2014.

Poems

“Translations.” Ruminate Magazine. Issue 42, March 2017.

“Fugue.” Relief Journal. Spring 2017.

“Sunflowers.” Mothers Always Write, October 2016.

“An Incomplete Alphabet.” Ekphrastic Review, October 2016.

“Yellow.” Ruminate Magazine, Fall 2016

“Bean Saving.” Mothers Always Write, July 2016.

“Imsland” and “What Fills.” Ruminate Magazine, Fall 2015.

“Nullus Partus.” Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art. Spring 2015.

“Freshman Biology.” Catamaran Literary Reader, Summer 2014.

“Snow and Ashes” and “Tidepools.” Propeller Quarterly, May 2014.

“At the Roadside Rock and Gem Store.” basalt Magazine, April 2014.

Five Poems. M Review, January 2014.

“The Prayer” and “The Seeker.” Ruminate Magazine. Fall 2013.

“Working from Home.” Water~Stone Review. 2013.

“By the Gate.” Catamaran Literary Reader. Summer 2013.

“The Future Stops at the Past in Need of Repair.” Sugar House Review. Issue # 6, Fall/Winter 2012.

Essays & Articles

“When You See the Heartbeat.” Coffee + Crumbs, June 2017.

“Through.” Coffee + Crumbs, March 2017.

“A Vocabulary of Growth.” Mothers Always Write, November 2016.

“In the Margins.” Mothers Always Write, October 2016.

“How Community Gardens Renew our Foodways.” In Good Tilth, Fall 2016.

“Mom Psalms.” Hip Mama, September 2016.

“Letter to my Daughter, Sky.” Dear Earth, With Love, July 2016.

“The Ridiculous Boat Called English.” Relief Journal, June 2014.

On Jane Kenyon’s “Otherwise”. Relief Journal, May 2014.

“Oh Lord, maker of our futures,” Relief Journal, March 2014.

“Bee Plus: Creating a World Where Humans and Pollinators Thrive.” In Good Tilth, Winter 2014.

Profiles of Bike-Powered Families. Boneshaker, September 2011.

Women, Bikes, and Business in Portland. Neighborhood Notes, August 2011.

Chicken-Keeping Basics. Neighborhood Notes, February 2011.

“Islands.” In Her Place, December 2011

Reviews

Ana Maria Shua’s Without A Net. Calyx Review, Summer 2014.

Natalie Serber’s Shout Her Lovely Name. Move Lifestyle, March 2014.

Alexis Smith’s Glaciers. Move Lifestyle, February 2014.

Mary Rechner’s Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women. Move Lifestyle, January 2014.

Elizabeth Myhr’s the vanishings. Calyx Review, Summer 2012.

Ursula K Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven. Propeller Magazine, July 2010.

Interviews

“Conversations on the Couch.” The Psychology of It, October 2016.

“Winged: A New Collection Explores the Relationship Between Human and Honeybee.” Propeller Magazine, October 2014.