Shuffle Synchronicities: Volume 1 - #364

Guest Post by Melanie Zoey Weinstein (feral masochism) + "Everytime We Say Goodbye" by John Coltrane - 01/24/22

Today we have a very special guest post from filmmaker, actress, poet, writer, and force of nature, Melanie Zoey Weinstein.

I met Melanie at fellow poet and writer and performer and teacher and guest poster, Caroline Rothstein’s workshop Camp Caroline in 2021, which it seems Caroline is bringing back in the Spring BTW, so look out for that!

I was immediately impressed by Melanie’s ability to write spontaneously.

Because I am someone who could write ‘the longest sentence ever written and then published’ often without interruption and editing, their ability to extemporaneously create poetry like that, which I very much struggled with, made a very strong impression on me.

After the workshop was over we both gravitated toward hanging out with each other when we found out we were both in LA.

We’ve had all sorts of adventures.

Like swimming nude at night in Malibu, going to a LGBTQ+ poetry reading together where they performed, and getting into ‘conflicts’ about consent to write about them on thi…