I’m a writer + poet with an academic background in English literature, creative writing + poetry. My poetry is influenced by nature, + I write about Caribbean +/or Black experiences of love. I’m an alumna of Royal Holloway, University of London (England). Currently, I’m working on publishing my first collection of poetry. You can view my publication history as you scroll this site. Follow me on Instagram @maelynn.writes for regular reading, inspiration and writing prompts.
“…the desk and chair become a space of study/my alphabet begins with you/
i write these words to understand/
the language of you…”
from Worship Is Love Is Study, by Maelynn Seymour-Major
Online Journal Publications
Published in Pree, Issue 6.
My Lover, Pree, Issue 6 2020
Three Strikes, Pree, Issue 3 2019
Every Time Curry or Flavours of a Confessed and Unrepentant Chili Tongued Lover; Poetry is Translation; How to Capture Happiness and Make it Last; HomeSeaSandSun; My Mother Four, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, Vol. 8, Issue 1 2011
Retired Woman War, Tongues of the Ocean, October Issue 2010
The Beach is A Graveyard, Lucayos, Vol. 2 2010
Every Time Curry or Flavours of a Confessed and Unrepentant Chili Tongued Lover, Tongues of the Ocean, June Issue 2009
Print Publications
Listen + Do, Forgotten Lands, Vol. 05 - The Haunted Tropics, 2023
My Lover, Pertinent Actions, Poetic Practice Anthology, 2023
Midnight Sins for Massa, Forgotten Lands, Vol. 03 - In Defense of Paradise, 2021
This is not a sonnet about climate change, Rewilding - An Ecopoetic Anthology, 2020
I Believe in Junkanoo; After Junkanoo, Yinna, Vol. 4 October 2012
Outside of The Classroon or Ignorance Learns and Confesses, Yinna, Vol 3. June 2011
A copy of Forgotten Lands and one of Rewilding.
Art Exhibitions
As a follow up to the exhibition, I had the opportunity to discuss my poem at this panel.