In The Open
“It was a long summer, then / a long autumn, without walls.”
Melanie McCabe
Melanie McCabe is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Night Divers. Her memoir His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams won the 2016 University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Georgia Review, Threepenny Review, Shenandoah, and many other journals.