Goat herder. Happy poet.
Rhymes w/ gazette.
Five books, including
The ECHO CHAMBER
(Milkweed)
& CLOUDWATCHER
(Copper Canyon)
Translator of The Popol Vuh
& Humberto Ak'abal
NY Times Best Poetry 2018
NEA Fellow in Poetry & Translation
michaelbazzett.com
Michael Bazzett
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this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me!
nymag.com/intelligence...
Grateful to have my poems "Tender" and"One Slaughter" (published in my first book, MEET ME HERE AT DAWN) in this beautiful anthology, THE NEW SENTIENCE: REIMAGINING ANIMAL POETRY.
tupress.org/978159534303...
Poetry reading & panel with the winning poets from "Rhythm and Revolution: The America at 250 Poetry Project" (I was a winner, with the four poets pictured here, including @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social and @sheilapacka.com).
Read all the poems here:
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Loved Cloudwatcher by @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social! Here are a couple that made me mutter, "daaammnn."
ook whose debut novel got a starred review (and a lovely photo!) in Publisher's Weekly! ❤️ So happy for Leslie! Can't wait for August, when it drops!
...from Cloudwatcher. 💜 Thanks to The American Poetry Review for publishing it!
This might be a bit meta, but this is the collective AI statement my department came up with at the high school where I teach, printed in yellow over the image of tree, so that it's difficult to read & you really need to slow down & pay attention. Difficulty & friction...
Damn happy to have this poem land in the gorgeous new issue of @nimrodjournal.bsky.social! It's from my next book, The MORPHOLOGIST, which is about reading & death, among other things, forthcoming from Milkweed in 2027. 💀Grateful to editor @bdralyuk.bsky.social & all involved...
I love how the poem seems to move inward and outward at once, like the spiral shell of a chambered nautilus...
Mary Ruefle is a good drug.
...are often the locale where the most learning happens.
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