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 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...
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:
thefriends.org/minnesota-ce...
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...
Loved Cloudwatcher by @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social! Here are a couple that made me mutter, "daaammnn."
Really, I don't want to land this poem so hard,
land it on a word so clichéd as "capitalism,"
but I don't know how to say otherwise
about this predicament we are in
where there is only one way out.
Juilana Spahr
...are often the locale where the most learning happens.
If you want to be able to read it more easily, (or borrow it), click on the ALT text.
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!
