Melody Newey Johnson

MELODY NEWEY JOHNSON’S poems have appeared in numerous print and on-line literary journals. Her work has also appeared in the Salt Lake Art Center in the collaborative art exhibit, Ceremonies of Innocence: The Girls Are Now Women. She lives and works as a registered nurse in Salt Lake City where she loves to garden with her husband and build sheet forts with grandchildren. Poetry is her native language.

Three Women, Three Worlds: A Review of New Poetry Collections | Maureen Clark, This Insatiable August; Elizabeth C. Garcia, Resurrected Body; Darlene Young, Count Me In

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 4

It was a pleasure to read and review recent poetry collections by Darlene Young, Elizabeth Cranford Garcia, and Maureen Clark. Each poet in her own voice and with her own hand dissects, examines, and elucidates…

The Color of Longing

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 1

After a painting by Emily Fox King

This blood, this longing was meant for
your particular darkness. That shadow,
the red droplet on the floor, a new wound:
These are mine to name. And in my name
you are known, no less worthy than your
brother. No less chosen for this canvas of
violence and change.