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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I've been a little slow about posting here, but my book launch is TONIGHT and it's now available: ciderpressreview.com/product/girl... Also available in-store at Brazos Bookstore and coming soon to more independent bookstores. So happy it's out in the world!

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Girl Filling the Sky – Cider Press Review

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I will also be the featured reader at Inprint's First Friday Reading Series at 7 p.m. Friday, April 3, 1520 West Main. Please scan the QR code to RSVP for either event. Would love to see you!

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

BOOK LAUNCH UPDATES: My debut collection, GIRL FILLING THE SKY, comes out next month! If you are local to Houston, I have two book launch events where I will be signing books (as well as reading). Official book launch is Saturday, Feb. 28, 6:30 p.m. at Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet Street. 🧵

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Girl Filling the Sky – Cider Press Review

$18.95

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Exciting news! My debut poetry collection, GIRL FILLING THE SKY, arrives Feb 2026! You can either pre-order via the link in my bio or join my book launch event at Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Saturday, Feb. 28. More details soon! #PoetryCollection #BookLaunch

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I didn't word this very well and can't edit--I have a book coming out in February. I sure would love to join a reading at AWP somewhere! I'm not well known but it's a book I'm proud of!

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Anyone looking for an emerging poet with a first full-length poetry collection coming out to read at an AWP offsite? #awp

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

My parents used to say that I should have a bumper sticker that said “Warning: driver in creative trance.” Anyway, I’m a poet with late-diagnosed ADHD, imagine that 😂

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

That's what I did in grad school just a few years ago (granted, this was an MFA program). Tons of reading and then seminars. And a book a week as an English major in undergrad, too. College students should be reading!

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It feels very strange to have a poetry book coming out soon during these bizarre times. I need to remember that art still matters, that it always matters. That's why people try to censor it. Keep making art.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I was thinking the same thing. Isn’t that what most of us did at that age?

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Fanny Howe described the poetic realm as a place "where the sleeping witness finally feels safe enough to lie down in mystery." So beautiful and foundational for me. RIP to her.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

My body literally feels weighed down.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The collective trauma we carry as Texans just keeps growing. It all feels too heavy to carry sometimes.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Same except as a Texan, we experience it every single time there's a disaster here. Gleeful wishes for our destruction. (I didn't vote for this and a bunch of us in blue areas of the state didn't either, for the record. Neither do children).

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Thank you, yes. As a (blue) Texan I have been arguing with people all morning about this and it's exhausting.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The challenge is they’re not answering their phones and their voice mails are full—at least that’s true in my rep’s case. I’ll keep trying.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

That feeling is the BEST. I’m a reader at a journal and I live for that feeling!

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I know one of the people in this group--she has fought so hard against Medicaid cuts. It's truly appalling the way this group is being treated.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Haven't really been posting here because hardly anyone sees it, but I sang on a stage for the first time since 2009 last night. I was so nervous, but that just means I need to do it more. Got to find joy where we can now.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Last I checked, AI poetry was uniformly terrible, so no!

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

It was probably “advertorial” content, which looks like editorial but is actually an ad, so it wouldn’t be on the website

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

My guess is it was “advertorial” content, which is often written by a different department or an agency.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

There are a few that are real, but the rest….

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This makes me so sad and frustrated.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

THIS SATURDAY: I'm leading a workshop on The Contemporary Poetry Landscape at Writespace (on Zoom!) 4:30-7:30 p.m. CST. We will talk about popular poetry forms, the publication process, and more. This is a generative workshop as well. To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-contem...

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The Contemporary Poetry Landscape

How to get published, how to read and be read, and where and how to study to get ahead! Led by professor Melissa Huckabay.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

My 11 year old still does this, and oof he’s not toddler size anymore!

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

It’s really upsetting. There’s a million upsetting things happening, but as a creative, it especially hurts.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Reading beautiful writing does that for me too.

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Melissa McEver Huckabay @melpsoul.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Haha I hadn't thought of that. I do still have a few out, good to be prepared for this!

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