Melanie Faith

MellfaithMelanie Faith is a three-time Pushcart nominee and holds an MFA from Queens College (Charlotte).  Her poems have appeared in Germ Magazine, and her chapbooks are Catching the Send-Off Train and To Wake Is to Begin.  She has taken many photographs and written articles for The Writer and Writers' Journal.  She is currently at work on a novel.

The Slades

Knee-deep in the yarrow and saw grass, I’m sweating it out on Old John Slade’s property. After school. 75 cents an hour. Bobby Slade cuts me a check every other Friday. “Avoid running that tiller into the slops, boy,” Bobby … Continue reading →