Poetry Book Club w/ Melanie McCabe!

Poet Lore , America’s oldest poetry journal and The Writer’s Center welcomes poet Melanie McCabe to our monthly Virtual Poetry Book Club for a discussion of her collection, All The Signs Were There. Melanie is joined by Book Club Host, Hannah Grieco. We encourage you to order a copy of the book from your local, independent bookseller or online » FREE & open to the public. RSVP below. Melanie McCabe is a writer of poems, essays, memoir, and most recently, fiction. She is a lifelong Virginian and was a high school English and creative writing teacher in Arlington for twenty-two years. Her debut novel, Road Longer Than Memory, was published by Oceanview Publishing on June 2, 2026. Her latest book of poems, All The Signs Were There, won the Longleaf Poetry Prize. 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 and was published in the fall of 2017. Previous books of poems include: The Night Divers (Terrapin Books), What The Neighbors Know (FutureCycle Press) and History of the Body (David Robert Books.) Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, Shenandoah, Cincinnati Review, Sweet, Forge Literary Magazine and elsewhere. About All The Signs Were There “To date, there has been no bomb,” writes Melanie McCabe in her gorgeously foreboding collection of poems, All the Signs Were There. Here are overgrown vacant lots, ants running in the walls, shadowy relationships, a “coastline of sharp and slice.” This is a powerful book of omens—and of the courage to live through them. —David Ebenbach, author of What’s Left to Us by Evening “Feral is the name given to what’s wild/ by what isn’t,” writes Melanie McCabe in this shimmering sequence that maps the heart’s bewitching cartography. Traveling through the lush landscapes of childhood and adolescence where fields reveal “the sudden stonehenge of a lone/gate,” to the stormy world of adulthood where…