Helena Mesa is the author of Where Land Is Indistinguishable from Sea (Terrapin Books) and Horse Dance Underwater (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), and she is an editor for Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. Her poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Indiana Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, the Academy of American Poets' "Poem-a-Day" series, and elsewhere. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and teaches at Albion College.

Other poems by Helena Mesa in Verse Daily:
May 24, 2019:   "The Lesson" "She said He is everywhere..."
March 29, 2009:   "Mechanics of Early Autumn" "Migrant workers pick late tomatoes..."

Other poems on the web by Helena Mesa:
Three poems
"Late"
"Legend"
"For the First Girl I Loved"
"The Lesson"
"Home, First Winter"
"Invitation"
"First Year Gone"
"A Question of Symbolism"

Helena Mesa's Website.

Helena Mesa on Twitter.

About Where Land Is Indistinguishable from Sea :

"In this, her second collection, Helena Mesa crosses 'the space between there /and here' in memory, by boat, by plane, with messages smuggled in white flowers, through the colors orange and black, in bible stories, her faith lost, her lost loves, lost cities, over the sea and under the sky. Robert Frost wrote, 'If it is a wild tune, it is a Poem.' The songs in this book are nothing less than magic and the scope of Mesa's quest, vast devastatingly particular."
—Kathy Fagan

"Where Land Is Indistinguishable from Sea is about and evokes distances, between lovers, mothers and daughters, and countries. The abiding spirit, who sometimes appears as Lot's Daughter, Eve, Penelope, and other figures, is the poet as recorder of a lost home, the poet singing of and from exile. Like Glück and Boland, whose words offer entry into the collection, Mesa powerfully engages myth, and her lyric poems rise to the level of myth, transforming the personal into the allegorical. With spare yet rich language, in poem after poem, Mesa beautifully layers the present upon remnants of the past."
—Shara McCallum

"Helena Mesa's Where Land Is Indistinguishable from Sea takes readers on a profound journey of self-discovery, personal growth, and transformation in the aftermath of grief. The poems in the collection address the risk of forgetting, recognizing the darkness that threatens to consume anything lost. Despite this uncertainty, the poems remind us that we are a sanctuary of memories, begging to be loved and cherished, even if we must eventually let go. Mesa confronts a world that is constantly divided. Masterfully composed, these poems are full of light, radiating with a 'wild joy,' for the living that longs to shine and be remembered."
—Ruben Quesada