Published in December 2024.

In found confetti, Rhea Melina’s fusion of performance-poet style and page-poet aesthetics continues to push unflinchingly into life’s difficult places. This debut full collection shows what our wounds can teach us, and these poems invite us all to not only heal, but to celebrate. “To save ourselves,” she writes, “We must redefine beauty.”

Rhea Melina (she/her) is a multi-ethnic poet who lives in Seattle. She is an educator, birth-worker and herbalist who has been writing and putting out poetry since the early 2000’s.  Her chapbooks include “Fireant” (SSO Press, 2005), “These are not secrets” (XYZ Animal Stars, 2009), “a place to put things” (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and “Not My Wasteland” (Bone Machine, 2024).  Her poems have been published in Fiilthy Glo Zine, Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, Papers Pub, Rising Phoenix Review and Text Power Telling Magazine, among others. found confetti is her first full length collection.

Paperback: $20.00. ISBN: 978-1-300-98236-4

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