In this Tip Sheet, D.H. Melhem summarizes her contribution to the discussion Building Audiences for Literature, from Facing Pages: A Statewide Literary Convening, June 3, 2005-which was included as part of Sapphir's remarks as panelist. D. H. Melhem, Ph.D., is a poet: seventh collection, New York Poems (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2005); novelist: Blight; and scholar, Gwendolyn Brooks, Heroism in the New Black Poetry. She has published a creative writing book and over 60 essays, edited two anthologies, and written and produced a musical drama in New York. She serves as vice-president of the International Women's Writing Guild.