Girl/Fool, by Melanie DuBose

Prose poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Girl/Fool is a collection of short prose poems that explore a sense of being outside and separate. Many poems detail the connecting thread between the natural world and the question that resides in all of us: what are we doing here, and how alone are we?

Inspired by the Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, the poems in Girl/Fool often toy with associations that are doubled, connections that are made and remade in new ways when the rules of grammar are undermined or ignored. An urgency runs through these poems which reminds us of the mystery in even the most ordinary and everyday object or occurrence.

Melanie DuBose lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Nixes Mate, Gyroscope Review, and Contemporary Haibun, among others. A graduate of the UCLA film school, she advocates for equity in arts education. She recently finished writing her first novel, People Who Love You.