Camera Obscura

CAMERA OBSCURA is a collection of poetry and images that draw on Melinda's experience as an artist and photographer-translating her keen sense of visual awareness into works that engage us. But her poems dig deeper than merely presenting an image. They bring insight to her world, and ours.MELINDA B HIPPLE is author of a number of poetry books including The Leading Trees, in a bottle of ink, and strawberry moon. Her poems and short stories have appeared in numerous print and online publications such as Encore, Watershed, Hillock, Prune Juice, Tinywords and Lynx. Three of her poems were anthologized in First Water: Best of Pirene's Fountain. She was a past haiga editor for two Japanese short form poetry journals-Notes from the Gean and A Hundred Gourds. Find more of her work at melindabhipple.com.