Lynn Melnick is the author of three books of poetry, including, most recently, Refusenik. She is also the author of the memoir I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton.

Other poems by Lynn Melnick in Verse Daily:
October 12, 2021:   "Denouement" "There could be worse things than to die in your sleep or in a haze of morphine...."

Books by Lynn Melnick:

Other poems on the web by Lynn Melnick:
"When Bad Things Happen to Good People"
"Twelve"
Six poems
"Town & Country"
Two poems
"July 4th, 2017"
"Refusenik"

Lynn Melnick's Website.

Lynn Melnick on Twitter.

About Refusenik:

"Melnick's is the rare kind of poetry that reads like a page-turner; I read it in one sitting and then read it again, and in the end I felt both angry and tender, and more alive."
—Shelly Oria