Erasure Poetry Workshop

About this event

You're invited to create erasure poems from various texts such as dictionaries, field guides, novels, or materials of your choosing. Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Born & raised in Brooklyn, they are the author of four poetry collections: field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), gutter rainbows (Querencia Press, 2024), Suture (Cooper Dillon, 2026) & Malocchia (White Stag, 2026). Melissa served as Poet Laureate for the City of Ukiah (2021-2024), and now lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Branch Library and curates the LOBA Reading Series. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com.