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Talkward w/ guest Melissa Balmain

This episode of Talkward welcomes poet, author, and recovering mime Melissa Balmain. Melissa edits Light, America’s longest-running journal of light verse. Her humor has appeared in The American Bystander, Lighten Up Online, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Success, The Washington Post, and Weekly Humorist. Her full-length poetry collection, Walking in on People (winner of the Able Muse Book Award), has been praised by Poet Laureate Billy Collins as “an infectious, often hilarious blend of the sweet and the lethal, the charming and the acidic. Her new book “The Witch Demands a Retraction – Fair Tale Reboots For Adults” illustrated by Ron Barrett is on sale now. BUY IT HERE: https://amzn.to/3adD2QX