Person Detail: D H Melhem

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Full Name: D H Melhem
Biography: Author of five books of poetry, two critical works, one novel, a musical drama, a creative writing workbook, over 50 published essays, and editor of three anthologies, D. H. Melhem was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Long Beach, California. Her Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice (1987) was the first comprehensive study of the poet. Melhem received her Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center and was nominated for a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in Women's Studies. Her Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews (1990) was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Study and won a 1991 American Book Award. Winner of numerous awards for her poetry, she has received wide acclaim for the elegy Rest in Love (reissued 1995) and Country: An Organic Poem (1998). Of her novel, Blight (1995), Cynthia Ozick wrote: An amazing and original parable . . . an indelible exemplum that will endure. Vice-president of the International Women's Writing Guild, she was a former board member of Pen & Brush and of RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc.). She co-edited (with Leila Diab) A Different Path, the first RAWI anthology (2000); also in 2000, a chapbook, Poems for You.
Author's Timeline:
1998		(Unknown) County Country: An Organic Poem (Pub: Cross-Cultural Communications. ISBN: 0-89304-223-4; 0-89304-222-6) Poetry.
1995		(Unknown) County Rest in Love (Pub: Confrontation Magazine Press. ISBN: 0-913057-22-3) Poetry.
2000		(Unknown) County Poems for You (Pub: P & Q Press. ISBN: 1-893068-09-9) Poetry.
1995		(Unknown) County Blight (Pub: Riverrun Press. ISBN: 0-7145-4274-1) Novel.
1987		(Unknown) County Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice (Pub: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN: 0-8131-0180-8) Nonfiction.
1990		(Unknown) County Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews (Pub: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN: 0-8131-0807-1) Nonfiction.
2000		(Unknown) County A Different Path (Pub: Ridgeway Press. ISBN: 1-56439-109-4) Anthology co-edited with Leila Diab.
1926		Kings County D. H. Melhem was born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 14, 1926.
2005		New York County New York Poems (Pub: Syracuse University Press. ISBN: 9780815608134) Poetry.
2003		(Unknown) County Conversation With A Stonemason (Pub: Ikon. ISBN: 9780945368076) Poetry.
2007		(Unknown) County Stigma & The Cave (Pub: Syracuse University Press. ISBN: 9780815608820) Novel.
2013		(Unknown) County D. H. Melhem died at Edgewater Skilled Nursing in Long Beach, California, on June 15, 2013.
2013		Suffolk County D. H. Melhem was interred at Green River Cemetery in Springs, New York.